8 hours I have a $5.7 million in net worth plus another $5 million in investments – why do I feel like a failure? 24/7 Wall St.

It’s a general rule of thumb that you should compare your portfolio to the returns of the S&P 500 benchmark index. The thinking goes, if you can’t beat the market then you should just buy the market. Yet there are a host of reasons why you shouldn’t. For example, individual investors often have different goals, […]