Capital Budgeting, Project Selection, and Performance Evaluation - Chapter 5 Retelling
Book: Structured Finance and Insurance: The ART of Managing Capital and Risk Author: Christopher L. Culp Publisher: Wiley Finance, 2006 ISBN: 978-0-471-70631-1
Book: Structured Finance and Insurance: The ART of Managing Capital and Risk Author: Christopher L. Culp Publisher: Wiley Finance, 2006 ISBN: 978-0-471-70631-1
Chapter 22 should be required reading before anyone picks a mutual fund, hires a money manager, or brags about stock returns at a dinner party. Harris basically proves, with math, that telling skill from luck in investing is almost impossible.
Here’s a question that keeps coming up in investing: how do you know if a fund manager is actually good, or just lucky?