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17 Post author: Stefan_Schubert 27 February 2015 07:26PM

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Comment author: V_V 03 March 2015 01:58:42AM 0 points [-]

The reason the managers of the fund are using index-tracking algorithms rather than human experts is, however, not so much that the former are better (as I understand they are roughly on par)

Maybe human experts tend to track the index anyway?