Scott Cooley
Scott Cooley
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Mid-cap and large-cap growth funds tend to have a lot of technology stocks and biotech stocks, and biotech stocks have really gotten pummeled too. It seems like there's been a flight from anything perceived to be risky.
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To the extent that fund companies had operations in the World Trade Center, they typically have backup files, so there shouldn't be any problems. Beyond that, the question is what happened to key investment personnel, and the initial response seems to be good. Oppenheimer Funds had offices in that building, and most of their personnel seems to be accounted for. And all personnel from Salomon Smith Barney was evacuated from 7 World Trade Center before it collapsed.
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A lot of the pressure has been brought on managers by the fund companies themselves. They create unrealistic expectations.
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I think we saw a taste of what could happen in July, when a brief and moderate correction caused this fund to lose nearly 7 percent, about twice the loss suffered from the average conservatively managed large-cap fund.
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I think there is an increasing recognition at Fidelity that fund size can really harm performance. If they are too big it can be pretty tough to reposition a portfolio. That is something Fidelity didn't acknowledge a few years ago.
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Some of the higher-turnover areas, like small blend funds and mid-cap growth funds, have a problem delivering comparable returns to their peers when too much money flows into the fund.
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Any time you let a stock run up to 40 percent of your portfolio, you have to have a lot of convictions. There aren't a lot of funds like this.
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I really think that it's a little bit of a quirk that a lot of funds were able to do well.
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In any given market, index funds should beat 60 percent of actively managed funds, not 90 percent like it's been.
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You can't really say it (fee cuts) are happening across the industry. People shouldn't be lulled into thinking expenses are necessarily falling at their fund family.
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Indexing is a long-term strategy. It still makes sense to have a mix of index funds and actively managed funds.
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Probably most people don't know who he (Weitz) is, but he has a fantastic record and a dedicated following.
At the boutique firms, it's a way to get recognized.
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Nearly everything that had done well in 1999 has done poorly this year, and vice versa. I think the problem is perception lags reality with investors. Throughout this year, we've seen strong flows into technology and growth funds, and the stocks haven't done well. You wonder when investors will start chasing performance and go to value.