Investors tend to discover 'hot' mutual fund managers just after a successful run and just before the inescapable force of mean reversion… — Barry Ritholtz Copy Share Image
Active management leads to lots of poor investor behavior. It sends people chasing after whoever has the hot hand at the moment. — Barry Ritholtz Copy Share Image
The ability to select stocks, manage them over time and know when to sell them is incredibly difficult, even for professional fund… — Barry Ritholtz Copy Share Image
Mutual fund managers want your money in their funds. They get paid based on assets under management. — Barry Ritholtz Copy Share Image
Asset managers have different approaches, and I don't wish to suggest there is only one way to run money. There are many… — Barry Ritholtz Copy Share Image
A hedge fund manager whose clients demand monthly performance reports has different needs than any individual investors with a 20-year time horizon.… — Barry Ritholtz Copy Share Image
Hedge fund managers charge so much more than mutual fund managers; alpha is even harder to come by. They end up selling… — Barry Ritholtz Copy Share Image
Often, investors will discover a manager after he's had a terrific run, usually when he lands on a magazine cover somewhere. Invariably,… — Barry Ritholtz Copy Share Image
Many hedge fund managers have become billionaires; perhaps this - plus their reputations as the smartest guys in the room - is… — Barry Ritholtz Copy Share Image
You, your employer and your plan's investment managers fail to follow even the most basic rules of investing. You overtrade, chase performance,… — Barry Ritholtz Copy Share Image
Amongst the financial Twitterati, the term 'muppets' has come to describe any client used and abused by some financial predator. I've adopted the term… — Barry Ritholtz Copy Share Image
It is important for investors to understand what they do and don't know. Learn to recognize that you cannot possibly know what is going… — Barry Ritholtz Copy Share Image
The good news is that economists are intelligent, engaging and often charming folks. The bad news is their work is often of little use… — Barry Ritholtz Copy Share Image
The electronics industry expanded rapidly and the seeds for the semiconductor and software revolution were planted. The postwar period also saw the suburbanization of… — Barry Ritholtz Copy Share Image
Footage of people camped out at Best Buy or elsewhere is not remotely a celebration. Rather, it's a reminder of just how economically distressed… — Barry Ritholtz Copy Share Image
Markets are frequently ahead of, and often out of sync with, the economy. — Barry Ritholtz Copy Share Image
Narrative drives most of economics. Everything seems to be part of a story, and how that story is told often leads to critical error. — Barry Ritholtz Copy Share Image
This ugly duckling investment will likely need time - quarters, or even years - to blossom into a beautiful swan. — Barry Ritholtz Copy Share Image
Yearly data put the rest of the noise into perspective. Most of the weekly or monthly random up-and-down movements get smoothed out. Ultimately, this… — Barry Ritholtz Copy Share Image
A number of bloggers in economics and the financial sector have risen to prominence through the sheer strength of their work. Note it was… — Barry Ritholtz Copy Share Image
TV producers want ratings and are willing to do nearly anything to get them. They gin up artificial conflicts and create an urgency for… — Barry Ritholtz Copy Share Image
