10k to buy shares in Irish companies

Carrie2006 said:

Some examples of funds who have outperformed their benchmarks (and hence would outperform index trackers) just in the European equity sector:




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The fact that one can point to a few funds that beat the indices is hardly relevant. Some funds are bound to do so. What's relevant is that the vast majority don't. One study that looked at UK fund performance from 1982-2001 found that over 80% of managed funds failed to beat the Ftse over that time. US data is similar.

I would imagine most of these are Mikey mouse companies rather than reputable asset managers. I could only find a few as I was on my lunch break!