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November 15, 2008

Quote du Jour: The Trouble with Investing in Averages

Never forget the six-foot-tall man who drowned crossing the stream that was five feet deep, on average.
        -- Howard Marks, Oaktree (quoted in Barron's)

Real-world distributions are a killer.

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