Retirement: Second Place Wins The Race

Can you beat the market these days? Should you even try? Increasingly, the resounding answer for retirement investors is "no" and "save your money." Wall Street blows a lot of cash on the idea that everyone should somehow beat the market. Try $600 billion a year in fees. Yet the financial research theory, now decades old, has finally proven true. Your odds of getting a better return than the overall market are now vanishing small — less than one manager in 100 can do it. Could you pick that m...