Should You Hire an Ape as Your Investment Adviser?
FYI
The
San Francisco Chronicle
came up with
an amusing way of evaluating how success-
ful investment advisers are at picking stocks.
They asked eight analysts to pick five stocks
at the beginning of the year and then com-
pared the performance of their stock picks
to those chosen by Jolyn, an orangutan liv-
ing at Marine World/Africa USA in Vallejo,
California. Consistent with the results found
in the Investment Dartboard feature of the
Wall Street Journal
, Jolyn beat the invest-
ment advisers as often as they beat her.
Given this result, you might be just as well
off hiring an orangutan as your investment
adviser as you would be hiring a human
being!
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