One way that investors scammed and in a sense rip themselves based on the culture of performance in the mutual fund industry. If you stop and think about it, there is absolutely no reason that the past is the future match. If you are not particularly successful as a stock investor would have been, in the past, for example, there is no reason that you will not be in the future successful. One reason I hope you are reading this article is that you want to improve as an investor.
Let us discuss how professional gamblers profits in Las Vegas. Card counters are a type of professional gambler who their memory of what maps are used in a deck are dealt in a game of blackjack (also 21). Because only a few of each type of payment they can place their bets when it is more likely that they win than lose. This works because after the shuffle the deck starts with a specific composition and a number of games to be played until the next shuffle. By the end of the deck you know what may be coming out if you pay attention because every hand in the deck depends on what is covered before.
There are no professional gamblers the numbers rolled on a pair of dice count on the craps tables. This is because there are only two dice and each roll is different. In other words, each roll of the dice is independent of all other roles. As each role is different no matter what was rolled out in the past. The same would happen if the deck in a game of blackjack were shaken each time between hands. This is a lot like the stock market where we do not know what the general level from time to time as a result of any data on the market in the sort term. Fund managers try to outsmart the market in the short term instead of patiently waiting for the long term, where it is more likely to determine whether stocks are high or low.
So why does the public pay much attention to the nonsensical advertising funds bragging about past accomplishments in recent years? Mutual funds buy expensive advertisements in newspapers, magazines and on television where they tout their achievements of the past one, three, five and ten years. The mutual fund industry promotes irresponsible this "culture of performance," even though it knows very well that it misleads investors. Studies have shown that if you take in a year, four out of five of them the top 10% highest yielding funds will not be a year later in the top 10%! For this reason, I strongly recommend that if you can only buy mutual funds, as in the case of the 401 (k), then limit your purchases to indexed funds like the Vanguard 500 (VFINX).
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