Scott Cooley
Scott Cooley
Scott Cooleywas an Old West Texas Ranger and later outlaw, best known for his association with gunman Johnny Ringo...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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A lot of the pressure has been brought on managers by the fund companies themselves. They create unrealistic expectations.
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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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This year, with the Fed cutting rates, people are getting bullish on the prospects of these companies making their debt payments.
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Those subtle differences (in returns of index funds) make a big difference over the long term.
At the boutique firms, it's a way to get recognized.