Warren Buffet is always good for a few sound bits of investing advice. We all should pay attention.
Steve
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Warren Buffett has a message for public pensions, colleges and the like: Stop pouring money into expensive, high-end money managers.
“The commission of the investment sins listed above is not limited to ‘the little guy.’ Huge institutional investors, viewed as a group, have long underperformed the unsophisticated index-fund investor who simply sits tight for decades,” Buffett wrote in his latest letter to Berkshire Hathaway shareholders.
Buffett has long been a critic of so-called alternative investing, a category that includes hedge and private equity funds, among others. The reason is the cut they take for their services, which can make billions of dollars for the managers but far less for clients, according to the man sometimes called “The Oracle of Omaha.”
“A major reason has been fees: Many institutions pay substantial sums to consultants who, in turn, recommend high-fee managers. And that is a fool’s game,” Buffett wrote on underperformance.