Bring in the Clones

Published Sunday, November 01, 2009

Picking winning stocks is hard. As a financial advisor, you may be loath to cop to it, but academic research has shown that most professional (and individual) investors underperform their benchmark indexes. That is not surprising, of course, but underperformance may even be worse than that, given new research from Blackstar Funds (the report, called “The Capitalism Distribution,” was released in December 2008), that shows that roughly two-thirds of all stocks underperform their indexes over their lifetimes. Further, 40 percent are unprofitable investments, and nearly a fifth lose at least 75 percent of their value.

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