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Everyone has their own strategy but I’d recommend reading the Q&A from earlier

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I would actually question why anyone needs to beat the market at all. The industry and the media place far too much emphasis on it. It’s actually very difficult to do over the long term, and only a tiny fraction of investors achieve it on a cost- and risk-adjusted basis, including the professionals. In my view, it’s far better simply to capture the market return as cheaply and efficiently as possible. Picking individual stocks is a bad idea. After costs, it’s extremely hard to outperform the …