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Tag Archives: small-cap funds

Jan 5, 2018

Big Things Come In Small Packages – Part 3

If you found a small-cap fund with a 23 year track-record that performed in the top 10th percentile of its peers over a 3-, 5-, 10-, and 15-year period, might you consider investing?  How about if you found out it was also a fraction of the price of its peer group?  Sounds pretty attractive, but…

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Jun 2, 2015

Who’s in charge of your investments – Captain Kirk or Mr. Spock?

I have a confession – earning the market return minus expenses does not feel very enticing. Reasonably well-run index funds will do just that, and probably land within the 2nd or 3rd performance quartile year in and year out. But is that the best I can do? Where’s the satisfaction? My inner Captain Kirk wants…

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Dec 17, 2013

The Persistence of Non-Persistence

The phrase “past performance is not a guarantee of future results” has never rung more true for active mutual funds. Our semi-annual publication, the Persistence Scorecard, takes a look at the performance of top quartile active funds over three- and five-year consecutive 12-month periods. Based on the most recently released report, out of 265 large…

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