Gary Halbert of Halbert Wealth Management shared a FINRA quiz on economic and investment basics with his readers and one of the questions many of them missed was on drawdowns. “Maximum (or max) drawdown refers to the worst-ever losing period for any given investment,” he writes. Mutual funds according to Halbert try hard to hide this statistic because “it doesn’t fit into their “relative return” view of the world.”

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