Fundies fail the index again

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Via the AFR:

The bulk of professional stock pickers have once again been unable to beat the market, as shown by Standard & Poor’s scorecard for the industry, which reveals another disappointing year for the industry in 2017.

Over the 12 months to December 31, the average large-cap Aussie equity fund managed to match the S&P/ASX 200’s return of 11.8 per cent, including dividends. But six in 10 of those funds underperformed the benchmark (the performance of which doesn’t include the costs of tracking the index).

Maybe so. But if you were one of those early birds that jumped into the MB Fund in July and got a more heavily-weighted international equities exposure then you beat the annual S&PASX200 index in just six months at 12% including fees and trading costs.

Why limit yourself to a zombie economy and bourse especially when the currency is so high?

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Just sayin’.

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David Llewellyn-Smith is chief strategist at the MB Fund which is currently overweight international equities that will benefit from a weaker AUD so he definitely talking his book. Fund performance is below:

Nucleus February Performance

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About the author
David Llewellyn-Smith is Chief Strategist at the MB Fund and MB Super. David is the founding publisher and editor of MacroBusiness and was the founding publisher and global economy editor of The Diplomat, the Asia Pacific’s leading geo-politics and economics portal. He is also a former gold trader and economic commentator at The Sydney Morning Herald, The Age, the ABC and Business Spectator. He is the co-author of The Great Crash of 2008 with Ross Garnaut and was the editor of the second Garnaut Climate Change Review.