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Even Fans Of Actively Managed Funds Often Concede That Most Other Investors Would Be Better Off In Index Funds. But Buoyed By Abundant Self-confidence, These Folks Aren't About To Give Up On Actively Managed Funds Themselves. A Tad Delusional? I Think So. Picking The Best-performing Funds Is 'like Trying To Predict The Dice Before You Roll Them Down The Craps Table,' Says An Investment Adviser In Boca Raton, Fl. 'i Can't Do It. The Public Can't Do It.'

That's What I Would Like To Do Until The End Of Time, To Go On Scribbling My Articles On The Third Floor Of The Sloan Building, In Between Playing Tennis And Drinking Coffee At My Other Study In The Concord Avenue Branch Of Burger King.

To Prove That Wall Street Is An Early Omen Of Movements Still To Come In Gnp, Commentators Quote Economic Studies Alleging That Market Downturns Predicted Four Out Of The Last Five Recessions. That Is An Understatement. Wall Street Indexes Predicted Nine Out Of The Last Five Recessions! And Its Mistakes Were Beauties.

You Know What Happiness Is: 'having A Little More Money Than Your Colleagues.' And That's Not So Tough In Academic Life.