Re:What I Learned from Losing $200M (2015)
by dcow on Thursday November 02, 2017 @07:09PM
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What a waste, isn't it? Or maybe better put, how presumptuous to think that years of statistical modeling and formal economic theory somehow endow someone with effectively better intuition than the next person. Maybe if those years of training actually lead to better investments there would be something to consider, but you can't argue that professional gamblers are better than casual intuitive ones if the pros don't actually yield better results.
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Re:What I Learned from Losing $200M (2015)
by yellowstuff on Friday November 03, 2017 @12:14PM
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They do. The median active investment fund underperforms the market, but the median active retail investor way underperforms the market.
Re:What I Learned from Losing $200M (2015)
by brianpgordon on Sunday November 05, 2017 @07:03PM
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And the median active investment fund underperforms the market for a reason. If a fund plowed 100% of its investment into the S&P 500 they'd be exposing themselves to laughably high volatility.