West Loop Financial LLCHedge Funds Are Status Symbols – West Loop Financial LLC https://www.westloopfinancial.com Evolutionize Site Wed, 19 Aug 2020 20:50:49 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.1.22 Hedge Funds Are Status Symbols https://www.westloopfinancial.com/2015/02/23/hedge-funds-status-symbols/ https://www.westloopfinancial.com/2015/02/23/hedge-funds-status-symbols/#respond Mon, 23 Feb 2015 09:00:48 +0000 http://evolvemypractice.com/?p=1733 What was the biggest surprise to hit the markets in 2014? I think most investors would tell you it was either that interest rates fell or that the price of a barrel of oil fell by half. My own view is that there was a far bigger one. For the 12 months ended August 2014,...

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]]> What was the biggest surprise to hit the markets in 2014? I think most investors would tell you it was either that interest rates fell or that the price of a barrel of oil fell by half. My own view is that there was a far bigger one.

For the 12 months ended August 2014, equity index funds and ETFs attracted $131 billion in net cash inflows, while actively managed funds suffered outflows of $55 billion.

These figures shouldn’t shock anyone, given the consistently poor performance of actively managed funds.

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