NOTES
Note 1: Vintage fund report 2014. 92% of unit trusts/OEICS failed to be in the top 40% of performance in their sector for at least 60% of the time. We do not believe that this is a demanding benchmark, but only 8% of funds met it.
Note 2: Dalbar Report 2014. This report analyses actual investor performance. For example, over the past 20 years, "equity fund" investors in the US achieved an average 2.02% annualised return, which is 4.2% less than the 9.22% that he/she could have achieved by simply investing funds in an S&P500 index-tracking fund. The problem was investors jumping into and out of the market at the worst times.