• DOI:10.2139/ssrn.1562813
Corpus ID: 45867425

The Importance of Investment Strategy

@article{Howard2010TheIO,
  title={The Importance of Investment Strategy},
  author={C. Howard},
  journal={Mutual Funds},
  year={2010}
}

• C. Howard
• Published 2010
• Business
• Mutual Funds

Superior stock picking is common among active equity fund managers. The reason stock picking skill is not detected by many performance studies is over-diversification, which overwhelms the superior performance of top holdings. Managers who do not over-diversify outperform by an astonishing 6% to 12% annually. The style grid is a significant contributor to this over-diversification problem. In addition, the grid does not help investors identify successful active managers, since stock… Expand

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