The financial industry would prefer you to believe that you can’t be a successful investor without it. That’s good for business but it’s not exactly true.
In fact, it may be truer to suggest that a layperson with a reasonable grasp of middle school math—combined with the rarer traits of discipline, grit and humility—is capable of building a portfolio that could beat the majority of professional stock pickers over the long-term.
Read the rest of the article on Forbes.