JMF Capstone Wealth ManagementThe Five Deadly Sins of Investing – JMF Capstone Wealth Management https://www.jmfcapstone.com An Alabama registered investment advisor Fri, 21 Nov 2025 19:30:19 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.1.22 The Five Deadly Sins of Investing https://www.jmfcapstone.com/2014/01/14/the-five-deadly-sins-of-investing/ https://www.jmfcapstone.com/2014/01/14/the-five-deadly-sins-of-investing/#respond Tue, 14 Jan 2014 22:37:25 +0000 http://evomultisite.dev/?p=566 If you invested dispassionately, using an objective analysis of the historical data, you would invest in a globally diversified portfolio of index funds with low management fees. It’s not that you can’t beat the market by investing in actively managed funds. Every year, some mutual funds outperform their benchmark. However, their probability of doing so over the...

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]]> If you invested dispassionately, using an objective analysis of the historical data, you would invest in a globally diversified portfolio of index funds with low management fees. It’s not that you can’t beat the market by investing in actively managed funds. Every year, some mutual funds outperform their benchmark. However, their probability of doing so over the long term is relatively low. Over a 20-year period, about 80 percent of actively managed funds will underperform their benchmark, Charles Ellis wrote in a 2012 article published in Financial Analysts Journal.

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