Losing the investment game – who’s to blame?

Let the experts invest for you: The main benefit of investing in a fund is that the investment management decisions are entrusted to the professionals, thereby relieving the individual of such a chore. – AFP

THE start to the year coincides with the time when fund managers are busy writing their annual notes and preparing their market outlook for the rest of the year.

Those who are contemplating investing in unit trust funds would be especially keen to listen to such talks to obtain information straight from the horse’s mouth, so to speak. Not surprising, considering that the person responsible for implementing a fund’s investing strategy and managing its portfolio trading activities is the fund manager himself.