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A recent study reveals some very interesting reasons [many, not all] financial advisors perform so poorly for their clients. It isn't due to conflict of interest, they evidently believe in their strategy - because they invest their own money the same way, even after leaving the industry!
https://poseidon01.ssrn.com/deliver...8109027016105071124105088106120078111&EXT=pdf
A common view of retail finance is that conflicts of interest contribute to the high cost of advice. Using detailed data on financial advisors and their clients, however, we show that most advisors invest personally just as they advise their clients. Advisors trade frequently, chase returns, prefer expensive, actively managed funds, and underdiversify. Advisors' net returns of -3% per year are similar to their clients' net returns. Advisors do not strategically hold expensive portfolios only to convince clients to do the same; they continue to do so after they leave the industry.
https://poseidon01.ssrn.com/deliver...8109027016105071124105088106120078111&EXT=pdf
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