Paul Moore, chief investment officer of PM Capital, has never been shy about challenging market orthodoxy; and at a recent lunch hosted by The Inside Network, he was in iconoclastic form.
ETFs may have utility, but the notion that you can diversify responsibility of each individual investment needs to be challenged according to managers at The Inside Network’s Income and Defensives Symposium.
Of all the reasons fund managers get outperformed by the benchmark, Paul Moore explained, the clearest is that they get distracted by macro issues that aren’t particularly relevant to their investments.
The benchmark core equities sector is a fundamental sleeve in any sophisticated portfolio. Most profess top quartile returns, but which five have genuinely outperformed the market over a three year term?
