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In a study of mutual funds that got new managers, researchers ranked the funds’ stock holdings from best to worst return. On average, the new managers sold 100% of the stocks ranked at the bottom—implying that their predecessors must have been so paralyzed by their own mistakes that only a new broom could sweep the portfolio clean. The funds that cling most desperately to their losers underperform by up to five percentage points annually.
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