Why Individual Investors Do So Poorly In The Market
April 17, 2015 at 09:51 AM EDT
While the S&P 500 has generated annualized returns of 9.9% over the past 20 years—and a boring old asset allocation of 60% stocks and 40% bonds has managed to return a solid 8.7%—the average investor has eked out a measly 2.5%.