The best investments according to research and statistics “Dead” investors. “Dead” investor”Dead” investor Several years ago Fidelity was an investment company, one of the largest asset managers in the world - conducted a survey of brokerage accounts of its clients, to select the best in terms of profitability and find out the secret of investor success. The study yielded unexpected results. Among the best were brokerage accounts, long-dead owners and inactive securities accounts. Probably, their owners for some reason lost access to accounts or forgot about them. Whether this is true or not, hard to say, but the main conclusion can be drawn from the study - the less activity on the brokerage account, the better the result. Or otherwise - less trade and speculation, more investment.