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Mutual fund companies now offer a significant amount of investment guidance for clients. The authors report that most companies consider risk and return characteristics when giving advice, but the advice does not conform to the Markowitz mean–variance framework. Hence, most individual investors’ portfolios are not on the efficient frontier. Fortunately, the annual return deficiency caused by this deviation is small.
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