Words rarely heard from star fund managers: “I just got lucky.”
Some might blame poor timing or unforeseen events for a lousy year, but success is somehow never an accident.
It most certainly was for WSJ columnists as we once again trounced the best and the brightest in the hedge-fund world.
Repeating an exercise from 2018, the columnists took a cue from Burton Malkiel, author of the investing classic “A Random Walk Down Wall Street,” and threw 12 darts at stock-market listings a year ago (he suggested using blindfolded monkeys).
We competed against star fund managers.
Once again, the pros got schooled by randomness.
The first time around, they lagged behind the dart tosses by 22 percentage points. This time, it was 48 percentage points.
Source: WSJ
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So true. Really hard to beat the market by actively picking stocks. As Buffett has said often, most people are better off buying an index.
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