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Compare this with a mutual fund: In the U.S. the average management fee for an actively managed fund is 1.23%, and there's often a front-end fee, too.
A managed fund is not the same as a hedge fund.
The cautious managed fund is principally invested with a long-term horizon in mind, using economic modelling by Moody's and in-house expertise.
Every single actively managed fund is supposed to beat the market.
In that context, buying an actively managed fund is probably the best bet.
"The drag that comes from having a managed fund is not there for the investor, and over time that compounds and provides a bonus," he says.
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And he said that those who still insist on an actively managed fund are almost certainly "deluding themselves".
The relative merits of the index fund versus the actively managed fund are a matter of continuing debate in the mutual fund industry, a man versus computer struggle.
My managed fund was a way to force savings - money simply came out of my account each month before I could spend it and the bank chipped in the same amount, leveraging the total amount that got invested.
Finding winners among actively managed funds is not easy now and would become harder as the number of consistently strong performers dwindled.
Myths and legends and misconceptions aside, a more powerful potential reason that so many investors stick with actively managed funds is that the fees associated with them may be poorly understood.
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