A randomly selected portfolio of stocks – picked as if by monkeys – posted better returns than a tracker fund. Ten million portfolios containing stocks randomly selected as if by monkeys managed to produce better profits than a tracker fund over 40 years, academic research has concluded. The tracker fund was made up of stocks weighted according to their share of the market, thus raising the question as to whether this is an appropriate strategy to build passive investment funds. The majority of passive tracker funds are constructed this way. A tracker aims to mirror or "track" the performance of any of a number of ... (full story)