Skill, scale, and luck in active management

How much of performance is really alpha? We report from the CFA Institute conference in Montreal.

By Staff | May 11, 2016 | Last updated on May 11, 2016
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This week, senior editor Dean DiSpalatro is reporting live from CFA Institute’s 69th annual conference.

He reported from The Blueprint for Long-Term Performance: Skill, Scale, and Luck in Active Management.

In case you missed Advisor’s live-tweets of the event, we’ve brought them together for you here.

For more CFA conference coverage, read:

A top-down approach to bottom-up stock picking: CFA conference

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