As we emphasized in a December 2013 Mathematical Investor blog, individual investors are not very well equipped, and certainly not very effective, in managing their own investment portfolios.
This is unfortunate, because fewer workers than in the past, particularly in the U.S., are covered by a “defined-benefit” retirement system, namely a pension that guarantees a certain proportion of one’s income at retirement, based on the number of years in service, in perpetuity until one’s death. Instead, the majority of the growing army of American baby boomers (according to the Population Reference Bureau, 76.4 million Americans were born in the period
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