We’ve all heard it a number of places over the years, I imagine: actively-managed funds basically never beat the market anymore. But a study published about a year ago finally sounds like it used the right statistics to answer the question. It’s covered in this NYT article: The Prescient Are Few.
Here are some excerpts, if [...]
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