Why Investors Earn Less Than Their Funds, and the Small-Cap Surge

Robert Brokamp: Why investors earn less than their funds and the small-cap surge? This is the Saturday Personal Finance edition of Motley Fool Money. I'm Robert Brokamp. This week, I speak with Morningstar's, Jeff Ptak, about research which finds that fund investors earn lower returns than the funds themselves. But first, let's hit a few highlights from last week in Money. The overall stock market has spent the past year and a half hitting new all time highs. It did run into a significant speed bump earlier ...