"A recent study found that 70 percent of actively managed funds have failed to beat their benchmark index and just 2.3 percent have delivered excess returns of more than 2.5 percent—and those are pre-fee numbers. Fees make the picture even worse.
Trying to pick in advance which funds will be among the few that beat the market has proven just as difficult. Morningstar’s famed star ratings have a poor track record of picking winning funds. Brokerage accounts advised by financial advisers achieve lower net returns and inferior risk-return tradeoffs than self-directed accounts. Even the expensive investment consultants who advise the world’s biggest money pools have shown limited ability to pick funds. The academic research now shows that the best metric for picking funds is the expense ratio: the less you pay experts to manage your money, the more you keep."
Trying to pick in advance which funds will be among the few that beat the market has proven just as difficult. Morningstar’s famed star ratings have a poor track record of picking winning funds. Brokerage accounts advised by financial advisers achieve lower net returns and inferior risk-return tradeoffs than self-directed accounts. Even the expensive investment consultants who advise the world’s biggest money pools have shown limited ability to pick funds. The academic research now shows that the best metric for picking funds is the expense ratio: the less you pay experts to manage your money, the more you keep."
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