Active managers: lucky, skilful, or useless?
Despite the academic hours put into debating whether active fund managers outperform, no one has definitively won the argument it seems.
The debate has been fuelled recently by papers from Eugene Fama and Kenneth French (Luck versus Skill in the Cross Section of Mutual Fund α Estimates) and Laurent Barrat, O. Scaillet and Russ Wermers ( False Discoveries in Mutual Fund Performance: Measuring Luck in Estimated Alphas).
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