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Study: Average investors often trail average fund performance

March 04th, 201009:33 AM ET

By Joseph Slife

Newly published data (PDF) from Morningstar reveal the fund categories in which the average investor is trailing average fund performance. For example, large-cap growth funds: Morningstar found that over the three years ending 12/31/2009, the average fund in that class lost 2.9%, yet the average investor in large-cap growth funds lost 3.6%. Li...
"Yesterday's winners, tomorrow's losers"

January 27th, 201009:58 AM ET

By Matthew Pryor

In an article on passive vs. active approaches to mutual-fund investing, the Wall Street Journal quotes Vanguard founder (and passive indexing guru) John Bogle on what is perhaps the biggest challenge facing active investors: "Yesterday's winners," said Bogle, "are far more likely to be tomorrow's losers." In other words, many actively managed...

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