Almost Half of Stock Pickers Beat the Market in Early 2022 Selloff

[VicBee]

Outperforming the benchmark is meaningless if the investor still ends up losing money for the year.

What consolation is it for clients if the fund manager beats the benchmark by 20% but still loses 10% of his clients' money?

Easier said than done in this market with an 8% inflation on one hand and a crashing market on the other. A fund manager can be deemed successful if they outperform the market by 20% yet still be in negative territory, no?

 

[Market_Observer]

Easier said than done in this market with an 8% inflation on one hand and a crashing market on the other. A fund manager can be deemed successful if they outperform the market by 20% yet still be in negative territory, no?

Career-wise, certainly he will be deemed successful by his peers. But to the client, it's still no consolation if he loses 10%.

 

[murray t turtle]

I personally don't believe half of the stock traders/pickers can beat the market,

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Looks like less that 50% did in 2009;
looks like> 50% the full time pros did beat the bench mark , as an average, on his chart.
But something else adding to complexity\ in 10 years only about the same 1or 2% did