Statistics show that most
market timers actually underperform investors with a buy and hold strategy.
In other words, value fund investors are not true contrarians but
market timers, succumbing to the behavioral pitfalls that snare investors in growth and other market styles.
In the interest of protecting shareholders with a long-term investment horizon, US Global continues to monitor for disruptive short-term
market timers.
Bottom line: A University of Michigan study found that, over a 30-year period,
market timers averaged an annual return of 3.
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SOME PEOPLE SAY THE
MARKET TIMERS ruined it for everybody.
This and many other studies have shown that
market timers do not beat the market.
Fund companies are becoming much more active in keeping
market timers out, fairly valuing securities and improving compliance and disclosure," said Russel Kinnel, director of fund analysis for Morningstar Inc.
It is clear in each of the cases under investigation that board members had not been informed of the shady activities of either
market timers or the fund managers' efforts to facilitate their questionable activities.
Get the price right so the
market timers will have no reason to stick around," Chalmers said.
A third said that
market timers had even "whipsawed" - raided - a fund aimed at encouraging children to save.
Wagner [18] also documents the success of 25
market timers during the period 1985-1990.
