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Quotes About Underperformed

Overall, a portfolio of the "good to great" companies looks like it would have underperformed the S&P 500.
~ Steven D. Levitt
Standard & Poor's Dow Jones Indices published a statistical analysis in 2016 detailing the dismal record of "active" portfolio managers: As is typically the case, about two-thirds of active large-capitalization managers underperformed the S&P 500 large-cap index during 2015. Nor
~ Charles D. Ellis
When S&P measured performance over a longer time period, the results got worse. Over 80 percent of large-cap managers and almost 90 percent of small-cap managers underperformed their benchmark indexes over a ten-year period through December 2015.
~ Charles D. Ellis