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Manager Selection: How Do You Choose a Good Fund Manager?

In: The Trustee Guide to Investment

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  • Andrew Clare
  • Chris Wagstaff

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Understand why manager selection is important. Appreciate the limitations of short-term performance data as a means of assessing a manager’s skill. Understand the difficulty of separating luck from skill and the role of mean reversion in interpreting fund performance. Understand the importance when evaluating a fund manager of the manager’s Investment Philosophy and Process. Be in a better position to question your current and prospective fund managers.

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  • Andrew Clare & Chris Wagstaff, 2011. "Manager Selection: How Do You Choose a Good Fund Manager?," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: The Trustee Guide to Investment, chapter 0, pages 485-507, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-0-230-36187-4_18
    DOI: 10.1057/9780230361874_18
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