Fund managers make monkeys out of molehills

One of the biggest debates in asset management in 2013 was not as big as it looked

One of the biggest debates in fund management in 2013 concerned whether a new breed of "smart" index-tracking investment strategies are as good at picking stocks as upside-down monkeys.

The answer? It doesn't really matter. Any of them are perfectly capable of outperforming a traditional cap-weighted index, over time.

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