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Re: It’s difficult to beat the index even for active funds
deepvalleys wrote: ↑Mon Sep 02, 2024 11:14 am
Do not know if that is fascinating…I simply examine an lively fund investing within the US, that has had decrease returns than index since begin. All due to one mistake this yr: they did not embrace Nvidia. Reveals that outsmarting the market is difficult, even for professionals.
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As has been proven statistically many, many instances, “lively” means elevated volatility in comparison with an index, not elevated achieve. Properly, elevated achieve for the fund supervisor, I assume.
Re: It’s difficult to beat the index even for active funds
Lively funds will underperform index funds on account of their increased expense ratio and transaction prices on account of increased turnover. For each lively fund that holds too little Nvidia, there may be one other that overweighted it. Inventory choice of lively funds, whereas introducing the chance of underperformance, additionally introduces the potential of outperformance. However the increased general prices will take their toll in the long term.