Kevfle recently posted an intriguing article called “Can we beat the professionals?’ In this he touched on some interesting questions around the investment industry, which provoked a flurry of responses from our fantastic community here at Stockopedia.
Kevfle seemed to have several questions on his mind, including:
Can we actually ever outperform the pros?Am I wasting my time?Is it easier to choose and evaluate a group of funds instead?Can I achieve similar results leaving it to the pros?In the first of this two part series, I will seek to address the first two questions, investigating where there might be scope for the individual investor to outperform and whether it’s worth the effort.
Can we ever outperform the pros?
In order to answer this, we need to define where our edge is.
Firstly, let’s take a look what we are up against. Our competitor investment management company has an army of analysts, each highly qualified with an MBA, PhD and several investing qualifications. They are able to assign individuals not to look at a whole market, but investigate businesses within an industry or in some cases just a handful of companies that the analyst will eventually get to know better than their…
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