Can You Beat the Market? Is Index Fund Investing Overrated?

Is It Possible to Beat the Market?

After writing close to 700 articles for this website, occasionally, it makes sense to come back and update some of the older articles. In this case, we’ll go back to the index fund question and evaluate whether this passive investing approach can still beat the market. This article was originally written about 2 years ago. The inspiration for this post camefrom the New York Times article “Beating the Market, as a Reachable Goal”, written by Jeff Somer. In t...