Welcome back to Room 101, our new series of short videos for The Investing Show.
Each video looks at a different product or service the investing in industry offers and explains why it isn’t necessarily all it’s cracked up to be.
Last time we looked at stock market forecasters, who get things wrong far more often than they get them right.
This time we explore so-called downside protection — the notion that active fund managers protect investors from the full extent of market falls in a crash or correction.
Downside protection sounds great in theory, but does it actually happen in practice?
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