FYI: The academic literature, including Russ Wermers’ 2000 study “Mutual Fund Performance: An Empirical Decomposition into Stock-Picking Talent, Style, Transactions Costs, and Expenses,” and Eugene Fama and Ken French’s 2010 study “Luck Versus Skill in the Cross Section of Mutual Fund Returns” has shown that, while mutual funds demonstrate stock-picking skills on a gross-of-fee basis, they fail to outperform appropriate risk-adjusted benchmarks net of fees.
Regards,
Ted
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