Earning a respectable investment is hard. Holding it on to it is even harder, according to a variety of studies over the years that have analyzed the portfolios that investor build and own. The news is at once disturbing and baffling. Disturbing because a large population of individuals have earned painfully low returns over long stretches of time; baffling because the solution to climbing out of the performance hole is ridiculously easy… in theory.
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