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The Mutual Fund Industry is a Stockholm Syndrome

Stockholm Syndrome is a psychological phenomena where hostages express sympathy and empathy towards their captors.

Even during bull markets, 90% of equity mutual fund managers fail to beat index averages… even as they pull in billions in fees each year.

The fact is typical mutual funds have made a lot of people in the financial industry wealthy, but shareholders get the shaft nearly every time.

Look, bottom line, the mutual fund industry is one massive Stockholm syndrome played out over millions of investors…

Mutual funds are the captors and investors are the hostages – hostages that keep rationalizing these dead-end investments, even having positive feelings for fund managers whose number one job is to steal money in fees.

It’s crazy, isn’t it?-from DR

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That time of the year

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IPO

Observations on Quess Corp DRHP

We have a special treat today. Kimi has written a guest post for us.

Kimi or Krishnaraj Venkataraman can be reached at  krishnarajv@gmail.com

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Linkfest: June 13,2016

Some stuff I am reading today morning:

Why 2016 will get worse for PSU firms (FE)

How many more payment banks will quit? (Mint)

India’s banks should turn Chinese (Bloomberg)

Ambit gets flak due to Sensex call somersault (RJ)

How to create wealth (Subramoney)

Is Oyo Rooms equivalent of a Ponzi scheme? (LinkedIN)

Confessions of a Mutual Fund Refugee (DR)

Behavior of the Experts (Common Sense)

Diversification will always disappoint (ThinkNew)

Strong Views weakly held (A VC)

 

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Slow Jam the News with Barack Obama

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