fund managers12 Aug 2016 10:56
and their obsession with beta..good grief.....one of many reasons not to take them as a tribe that seriously (except they have plenty of other folks' money to play with lol)
..it is all about management, markets and multiples...simplesz
..but assessing management and market (competition, competitive position) is hard..v hard...too hard for most fund mangers imv..
..hence the obsession with technical nonsense like betas (nonsense cos the standard model from whence beta sprung has been shown to be be flaky to put it mildly..read the great lamented Mandelbrot lol)