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by jorblumesea 2837 days ago
Hedge funds are also statistically unlikely to beat the market and finding one that does requires a huge capital buy in that few workers can make. You're talking 250-500k minimum buy in. Hedge funds have chronically underperformed for the last 10-15 years. Now that so much information is available, much of the market performance is priced in now.

Once again, the best bet for the average person is an index fund. On a 30 year timeline all of these blips are smoothed out. If you can afford top level financial firms you're probably way wealthier than the average person.