Sentence examples for bad fund from inspiring English sources

"It will make a very bad fund awful, but even a mediocre fund will do O.K., and it will make a good fund great," Mr. Thorp said.

Someone in the California tax-free fund might say, 'Oh look, none of the directors is in my fund -- that must be a bad fund.' " Of course, she added, directors would invest in that fund only if they lived in California, because of the tax benefits.

The moral hazard argument emerges especially from generational debate of bad fund management in Africa.

We show how you can tell a good from a bad fund (p. 180).

In addition, a successful fund one year tends to be a bad fund the next year.

A bad fund will gobble up a full percentage point or more.

Mr. Romney's decision to again invest his own money into the campaign — he lent it $2.35 million in the first quarter — was clearly intended to signal he was prepared to use his wealth to offset the bad fund-raising environment his party finds itself in.

Worst of all, bad funds tend to disappear along with their records.

Emanuel Derman of Prisma Capital Partners, a fund of hedge funds, has shown that for many strategies good hedge funds continue to outperform their peers and bad funds tend to remain in the same rut; there is little reversion to the mean.

For good ones, "it's just icing on the cake," and for bad funds, "you don't want to buy them" in any event, Mr. Portnoy said.

But Vanguard argues that this outperformance would be eliminated were survivorship bias to be eliminated (bad funds tend to close down).Having given active managers a hard time, it seems fair to point all this out.