![More Evidence That It's Really Hard to 'beat the Market' over Time, ~90% of Finance Professionals Can't Do It | American Enterprise Institute - AEI More Evidence That It's Really Hard to 'beat the Market' over Time, ~90% of Finance Professionals Can't Do It | American Enterprise Institute - AEI](https://www.aei.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/SPIVA2020.png)
More Evidence That It's Really Hard to 'beat the Market' over Time, ~90% of Finance Professionals Can't Do It | American Enterprise Institute - AEI
Why can an individual investor beat the market but many professional investors do not? Also, if it is so hard to beat the market, why not just invest in an index fund? -
![My dad told me to invest in Index Funds because "individual traders never beat the market". Gain 69k : r/wallstreetbets My dad told me to invest in Index Funds because "individual traders never beat the market". Gain 69k : r/wallstreetbets](https://preview.redd.it/s7zjwlg584n71.png?width=640&crop=smart&auto=webp&s=aa216d7dda95ef1bd68fa67229ba17fbd372856b)