Sentences with phrase «for active stock pickers»

Regardless of how correlations change, the opportunities for active stock pickers will languish until dispersion rises.

For active stock pickers, the math is cruel: All else equal, if stocks rise 20 %, then a fund with a tenth of its assets in cash will generate only an 18 % gain before expenses.

Not exact matches

Here is Michael Mauboussin's take on whether the exodus out of active and into indexes will leave more opportunities for stock pickers:

For answers, we asked Portfolio Managers Lucy Macdonald and Karen Hiatt — two of our most experienced stock - pickers — to share their thoughts on active investing in turbulent times.

Index - based investing has won, active has lost, time for stock pickers and portfolios managers to find new careers.

When considering whether we're in an attractive environment for active management — the long - sought «stock picker's market» — it's important to bear in mind the difference between the existence of skill and the value of skill.

Thus the irony: active equity managers may finally have the stock picker's market for which they've hoped.

This is Step 3: Stock Pickers of the full length documentary film Index Funds: The 12 - Step Recovery Program for Active Investors.

In their 2007 study, Martijn Cremers and Antti Petajisto noted that «the best performers are concentrated stock pickers» and «we also find strong evidence for performance persistence for the funds with the highest active share.»

Today's Wall Street Journal brought the latest in a string of articles suggesting that we have entered a period of particular opportunity for active investment management — a so - called «stock - picker's market.»