Why You Can Beat the Market — But Hedge Funds Can’t

Normal people can indeed beat the big money managers

Thomas Herold
DataDrivenInvestor
Published in
7 min readAug 12, 2021

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I recently posted an article on why I think that, if you want to retire *early*, you shouldn’t blindly invest in index funds — at least based on the expected returns coming in the decades ahead.

Needless to say, people had very mixed responses to my questioning of this popular mantra. Many kept responding how «it’s impossible for a retail investor to beat the market consistently», citing the fact that «not even the big hedge funds

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