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Money managers under the microscope
from Jeremy Gaunt:
Getting there from here
Depending on how you look at it, August may not have been as bad a month for stocks as advertised. For the month as a whole, the MSCI all-country world stock index lost more than 7.5 percent. This was the worst performance since May last year, and the worst August since 1998.
But if you had bought in at the low on August 9, you would have gained healthy 8.5 percent or so.
In a similar vein, much is made of the fact that the S&P 500 index ended 2009 below the level it started 2000, in other words, took a loss in the decade.
That completely ignores, however, a more than doubling of the index between 2002 and 2007.
