Actively Managed Funds In Canada Are Still Terrible

As at the end of 2017, Canadians still had 88.8% of their mutual fund and ETF assets invested in actively managed products. This would all be fine if actively managed funds were delivering any semblance of decent performance. Unfortunately, the performance of actively managed funds continues to be dismal.

Referenced in this video:
SPIVA Canada Scorecard - https://www.spglobal.com/spdji/en/documents/spiva/spiva-canada-year-end-2017.pdf
Morningstar Global Fund Investor Experience Study - https://www.morningstar.com/content/dam/marketing/shared/pdfs/global-fund-investor-experience/GlobalFundInvestorExperienceReport2017.pdf
On Persistence in Mutual Fund Performance - https://www.jstor.org/stable/2329556

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