Wall Street: the Road Block To Your Investing Success

Worried about your stocks? Blame it on Wall Street.

Investors today face a barrage of conflicting information and exaggerated return claims from what most people consider the “market” -; the S&P 500 or the Dow Jones Industrial Average. But these indexes only comprise about 12 percent of all U.S. stocks. The reality is that these stocks can’t be predicted with any consistency, especially long-term.

In the complicated world of financial services, you’re being misled.

Wall Street advisors employ a strategy of “active marketing,” which is the continual development of new products designed and marketed as the latest and greatest solution to investors’ fears and concerns. There is an addiction factor at work here; active marketing feeds our desire to roll the dice. This rolling of the dice takes the form of stock picking, market timing and return chasing, activities otherwise known as active management.

The alternative is to “super-diversify” your portfolio with a wide array of unrelated investment choices and assets. This strategy allows you to own the market as a whole, rather than just a few of...