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3 Post author: James_Miller 23 April 2016 10:09PM

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Comment author: gjm 26 April 2016 11:09:32AM -2 points [-]

I think CK means: for all one can tell from Novus's output, they might just have identified a bunch of successful funds and declared them "activist". That would certainly lead to the conclusion that "activist" funds are more successful, but it wouldn't offer any evidence that picking "activist" funds by criteria that don't involve success offers any advantage.

Comment author: ChristianKl 26 April 2016 01:18:02PM 0 points [-]

That would certainly lead to the conclusion that "activist" funds are more successful, but it wouldn't offer any evidence that picking "activist" funds by criteria that don't involve success offers any advantage.

Furthermore the criteria don't have to be explictely about success but can be implicetly about it.