It's unlikely that an amateur investor, with fewer resources and less time, will do better. In the chart above, you can see how a passive S&P 500 indexing approach compares with the performance of all stock funds (both active and passive) during various periods over the past 30 years, ...
- people using a deluge of sciencey-sounding words are either: novice scientists (professional or amateur) inexperienced in communication or trying to consolidate their position (been there, done that...); Star Trek fans; engineers and scientists who caught the Nobel disease in their great age;...