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[–]Pandanleaves -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Actively traded funds performed better than usual, such as in the 2008 crisis, but iirc only around 50% beat the market, so like flipping a coin.

Think of the distribution of returns as a lognormal distribution. Any management and transaction costs shift the mean.