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Lipper: Active, Passive or Smart Beta: Who’s Winning? : Video & Test
FYI: As markets have grown steadily more efficient in recent decades, it has become more difficult – and expensive – for fund managers to deliver excess returns relative to benchmarks, or “alpha”.
Thank you for posting a Link to this video. The assembled panel is certainly manned by elite members from the professional investment community. They are representative of heavy weight firepower in that community.
It is a reasonable expectation that these insider Giants might offer some useable tips for the amateur investor that were off the conventional wisdom. Well, I was disappointed. These experts only offered the conventional, conservative investment axioms. There were no shocks and no surprises. A very rookie investor might benefi from such a presentation, but I suspect most MFOers understand and practice the principles summarized by this seasoned, august group.
Controlling costs shouldn't surprise anyone. The fact that momentum investors are at high risk and suffer when momentum changes direction should not shock anyone. Yet I was encouraged by the presentation because it served to reinforce many of the investment principles that I apply (at least most of the time). It served as an atta-boy for me.
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Thank you for posting a Link to this video. The assembled panel is certainly manned by elite members from the professional investment community. They are representative of heavy weight firepower in that community.
It is a reasonable expectation that these insider Giants might offer some useable tips for the amateur investor that were off the conventional wisdom. Well, I was disappointed. These experts only offered the conventional, conservative investment axioms. There were no shocks and no surprises. A very rookie investor might benefi from such a presentation, but I suspect most MFOers understand and practice the principles summarized by this seasoned, august group.
Controlling costs shouldn't surprise anyone. The fact that momentum investors are at high risk and suffer when momentum changes direction should not shock anyone. Yet I was encouraged by the presentation because it served to reinforce many of the investment principles that I apply (at least most of the time). It served as an atta-boy for me.
I encourage MFOers to give the video a look-see.
Best Regards.