Once upon a time there was a mutual fund named Fidelity Magellan that seemed to do no wrong. Under the leadership of its dynamic portfolio manager, Peter Lynch, the fund racked up an eye-popping average annual gain of 29% over 13 years. Investors took notice and poured billions of dollars into the fund, making it the largest stock mutual fund […]
Month: May 2004
Muzzle your urges, boost your return
The stock market has delivered an average annual return of 12.9% over the 20 years ended in March, and individual investors have had access to plenty of decent stock mutual funds that have come close to that return. Why, then, has the average investor realized vastly inferior returns over this period? A study performed last year by DALBAR, an independent […]
