Confessions of a lonely contrarian

CONTRARIAN INVESTOR

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This week we will be running an interview with Investec's self confessed contrarian Alastair Mundy.

Now I do not want to steal the thunder of that interview but I do want to focus on what Alastair’s comments tell us about the existing fund management model. I would suggest that if active fund managers are to beat back the menace of index tracking passive funds they have got to actually be more...well...

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