Sentences with phrase «active money managers»

On average, the excessive management expenses of active money managers are over double the value of their incremental performance gain.

Even professional active money managers usually don't do better than the market after their higher investment management expenses, higher trading expenses, and increased capital gains taxes are added in.

Active money managers want you to believe that they can act defensively to mitigate the downside of stocks during a market downturn.

From a statistical standpoint, it is difficult, if not impossible, to determine active money manager skill.

For decades (since 1977, when Vanguard invented the S&P 500 Index fund, and John Bogel started his crusade to get investors to «just buy the whole market»), people like Bogel have been saying, «Don't hire active money managers because they can't even beat the markets.

Meanwhile, the National Association of Active Investment Managers Exposure Index, which tracks active money managers» average exposure to U.S. equity markets, fell to 55.57 this week, down from an average of 71 in the first quarter of the year and roughly 63 since mid-2006.

Warren discussed the bet in this year's annual letter to Berkshire Hathaway Inc. shareholders, explaining that the high fees active money managers charge create a headwind relative to low - cost passive alternatives.

Active money managers often try to paint indexing as an unsophisticated strategy that's only appropriate for beginners and small accounts.

There are glimmers of hope in the one - year returns in Europe and Japan and in the emerging markets, but there is not a single geography where active money managers have beaten the index over the last five years.

Perhaps surprisingly, even professional active money managers on the average do not do better than the market after their increased investment company management fees, greater brokerage costs, and higher trading taxes are considered.

Despite the evidence, active money managers behave as if they can defy the odds and deliver market - beating returns.

In another high - profile case of active money managers getting squeezed in the current economic crisis, Duke Buchan of Hunter Global Investors is closing his $ 1 - billion hedge fund.

And if you read the commentaries of active money managers and the financial media, you've probably seen countless articles that dismiss both as obsolete.

According to the National Association of Active Investment Managers» Exposure Index, active money managers are still historically overweight in equities.

Your claim that Thus, active money managers have to start off with the recognition that they collectively can not beat the index and that their costs (transactions and management fees) will have to come out of the index returns.

«I am an active money manager and have been using technical analysis since 2001.

Over 30 years as an active money manager gives us a true historical perspective.

To compensate they hire an active money manager to do it for them.

One noticeable improvement has been sentiment, which has worked off some of the recent bullish levels and moved closer to levels associated with bottoms as both active money managers and retail investors turn overly bearish.