James Klempster: The best new fund of today is the same old fund

'Should be forever young'

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The beauty of a well-run fund is that is should be forever young, writes James Klempster, who imagines what the asset management sector would be like if it sold products like tech companies do ...

I received an email a day or so ago from Apple trying to sell me the new iPad. Tech sales are interesting because, in essence, the purveyor of the object you bought from them all too recently is informing you that it is now a little bit obsolete. Sure, it still works reasonably well, but the newer version is incrementally better in every way.  A little bit more powerful, a slightly better camera, slightly lighter and so on. Your view on the merits of this as a consumer are, of course, a matter of personal taste (and probably prosperity). But there are plenty of otherwise abstemious indiv...

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