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The Boring Investment Strategy that Beats 85% of Portfolio Managers
And why you don’t need a finance background to implement it
Everything here is my opinion. Always do your own research before investing.
Introduction
I’ve chosen an investment strategy that, historically, has beaten more than 85% of portfolio managers, in Canada and the United States, over the span of 10–20 years.
The added bonus of my investment strategy is that it’s simple to implement — heck, it’s downright boring.
The only education requirement is a grade school level expertise in basic arithmetic.
Are you ready to hear what it is?
Index Investing — Because of course it is
I’ve written about index investing before — here, here, and here.
However, I’ve yet to write an article on what index investing actually is (and, more importantly, why it has beaten most active portfolio managers over the span of 10–20 years).
Index investing (sometimes referred to as ‘passive investing’) is an investment strategy whereby an investor holds a basket of assets (stocks or bonds) that tracks, to…
