Most other funds seem to be managed by «top - down»
asset allocators who bring little, or no, knowledge to the nitty - gritty details that affect the companies and securities in which the typical fund has invested.
Not exact matches
Chris is the first professional
allocator I've spoken with
who focuses specifically on venture capital funds, so I had a ton of questions for him on how to build a portfolio in an
asset class known for uncertain, but often enormous, outcomes.
«I have serious philosophical differences with those
asset -
allocators who recommend index funds because they believe it is impossible to beat the market,» Green writes in The Gone Fishin» Portfolio, first published in 2008 and newly released in paperback.
Furthermore, these academic views, which are discussed at some length below, seem to have been adopted virtually in their entirety by most money managers, including the managers of most mutual funds, especially those
who are non-fundamental, top - down
asset allocators.
Such market participants include day traders, chartist - technicians;
asset allocators; market participants financed with borrowed money; participants untrained in fundamental analysis; participants
who don't read disclosure documents; believers in Modern Capital Theory (The Efficient Market Hypothesis & Efficient Portfolio Theory); behaviorists and psychologists.
Chris is the first professional
allocator I've spoken with
who focuses specifically on venture capital funds, so I had a ton of questions for him on how to build a portfolio in an
asset class known for uncertain, but often enormous, outcomes.