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Making sense of the markets this week: September 28
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Each week, Cut the Crap Investing founder Dale Roberts shares financial headlines and offers context for Canadian investors.Is beating the market a thing of the past?
There are many reasons why it gets harder and harder to beat the market. Even for the likes of Berkshire Hathaway’s Warren Buffett.
That’s the conclusion of “The Incredible Shrinking Alpha,” newly updated in August 2020 by Larry Swedroe, chief research officer for St. Louis, Mo.-based wealth management firm Buckingham Wealth Partners, and Andrew Berkin, head of research at Bridgeway Capital, a wealth management firm based in Houston.
S&P Dow Jones Indices have studied active managers for many years. Last year, they noted that after 10 years, 85% of large fund managers underperform their benchmark (using the S&P 500), and after 15 years, that underperformance reaches 92% of managers.
Why has it become tougher each year and decade to beat that passive benchmark?
The competition is getting tougher. There are so many active managers evaluating and pricing the individual stocks…
