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Don’t Confuse Me with the Facts
As surely as we saw the ball drop in Times Square, at the turn of the year we see predictions that this year, unlike last, will be the year when active equity management shows its true value. Of course, similar predictions were made a year ago, and they didn’t work out particularly well, but that never seems to…
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Some Inconvenient Truths
Today’s Wall Street Journal brought the latest in a string of articles suggesting that we have entered a period of particular opportunity for active investment management — a so-called “stock-picker’s market.” Because the average correlation of stocks within the S&P 500 or other major indices has declined, it’s argued, “active managers are going to do…
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