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What is survivorship bias in performance data?

  1. A Excluding funds that closed, which overstates average historical returns
  2. B Including too many funds
  3. C Measuring over too short a period
  4. D Using gross rather than net returns
Answer

Excluding funds that closed, which overstates average historical returns

It is one of several biases, alongside backfill and selection bias, that make historical fund performance appear better than it was.

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