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How Can Investors Boost Their Odds of Picking a Winning Manager?

The Morningstar Active/Passive Barometer establishes base rates for fund selectors.

Ben Johnson, CFA

Mar 23, 2018

Mentioned: Vanguard Total Stock Mkt Idx Inv (VTSMX) , SPDR® S&P 500 ETF Trust (SPY)

In his book Thinking, Fast and Slow,[1] Nobel Prize-winning psychologist Daniel Kahneman discusses how he stumbled upon two different approaches to forecasting while working for Israel’s Ministry of Education to write a high school textbook on judgment and decision-making.

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