Comment by herval

6 months ago

You might have learned the wrong lesson there, if your goal is to build wealth. But it’s a good idea to prevent losses

Not really, indexing beats hedge fund managers over something like a 12 year stretch.

  • hedge funds are not the same thing as picking individual stocks. Not even close. Index funds are an averaging mechanism to reduce risk, not to maximize return (you can easily beat the average by allocating on the p75 instead for instance)