Listening to a number of fund managers yesterday, talk about how they pick investments was uncannily like hearing gamblers describe how they analyse form for the runners at the 2.30 at Kempton; or, worse still, the choice of numbers on the roulette table. Cynical? Moi? Yes, about making things too complicated, trying to look clever and beat the markets in the short term. My view has always been that a boring but well-managed managed fund will always be fine if you hang on in there. If it’s not rocket science, don’t use a quadratic equation to solve it.
“Why people over the age of 55 are the new problem generation”
I suspect that many a ‘boomer’ might be pleased with the ‘problem generation’ label. When they were teen- or twenty-somethings, their parents’ generation may well have either despaired of them or worried about the world into which they were emerging as adults; it will ever be thus.