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Index funds versus stock pickers

Understand what active-versus-index scorecards show and why the index is the benchmark.

Module 17 of 26, ETFs, index funds and super. Lesson 3 of 6, about 14 minutes.

The takeaway

Beating a cheap index after costs is hard, even for professionals with research teams. That is the baseline.

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