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Old 03-01-2020, 07:23 PM
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Originally Posted by LJalberta View Post
Of course he also says that almost no professional fund manager will beat the indexes in the long run, and that it's not a matter of not doing the 'hard work' of making investment decisions. It's the fact that to actually beat the markets you'll be a statistical anomaly. It's rare professional fund managers do it, and even more rare the average joe will do it. Of course someone's gotta be exception.
Here's a famous study on mutual fund performance.

The problem that Jock Bogle solved for individual investors was to reduce those high fees. That was his gift to humanity.

https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....ract_id=244153
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