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Illustration by Melanie Lambrick Writing about investing for a living can teach you a lot about the market. It can teach you even more about humility. The big lesson that any investing writer painfully absorbs is that stocks are awfully hard to predict. We spend our days reading research reports and talking to financial pros, but all our experience just goes to demonstrate how fiendishly difficult it is for anyone – including professional money managers and hard-working financial journalists – to beat a simple index fund. Still, those of us at Globe Investor wouldn’t be human if we didn’t try....
