MarketWatch's Chuck Jaffe looked at all the active funds over the last eight years and tallied up the number that beat the S&P 500 in each of those years.

You can count them on one hand and have a thumb left over.

Now you have a choice. Do you say:

Man! that's a hell of a track record - I'm buying some of that fund! - or -
Mmmm - looks like the odds of consistently beating the market are pretty darn slim - I'll stick with index funds.

Choose wisely.

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