Re: Burcon Ok, since I have limited time I will for now just pick one of your statements, or should I say bragging. If you were at least a tiny bit updated with the huge scientific literature on empirical finance you would know that there is simply no evidence that stock picking persistently produces abnormal returns, i.e. a risk-adjusted return above the one predicted by any choice of equilibrium asset pricing model, e.g. CAPM or a multi-factor model. On the contrary, deviation from a diversified portfolio, i.e the market portfolio, produces persistently below equilibrium returns. Now, of course an individual investor, like you for example, can for a period by luck have a higher return than a bench-mark, but don't come bragging that it is because of your skill. That is like if a person that gets a flush in poker five times in a row calls it skill. My message - your bragging that you do better than your broker is - simply - BS.