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Episode 97: Measuring Performance (The Timing Mismatch)
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Episode Summary
This episode deconstructs the profound structural divergence between how investment products report their performance and how individual investors actually experience returns. We expose a common retail paradox: a mutual fund or exchange-traded fund publishes a highly attractive seventeen percent cumulative return over a two-year period, yet an investor's personal account statement shows a net loss of over seven percent. This gap is not caused by hidden fees, administrative…
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