Underperform

  

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The bane of every financial manager's existence: do worse than. Like...the S&P 500 went up last year 14 percent, but your fund, which had analogous growth and income stocks in it, went up only 11 percent. You underperformed your bogey, or the market, or expections, by 3 percent.

Now go hang your head in shame, you low alpha investor, you.

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retail level There Aunt Mary who just paid twenty two

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on And they're generally highly educated and ruthlessly called for

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