Index Funds vs Individual Stocks — Which Builds More Wealth? (The Real Math)

Jake picks individual stocks. Marcus buys an S&P 500 index fund. Both invest $1,000/month for 30 years. The gap at retirement is $615,000 — and the math behind it will rewire how you invest.
We ran the real numbers on stock picking vs. index investing over a 30-year horizon in a taxable brokerage account. Bessembinder’s research on 26,000 stocks. SPIVA’s 15-year data on active fund managers. The tax drag on every rebalance. The step-up in basis at death. The “I would have bought Nvidia” objection — and the Cisco counterexample nobody mentions.
By the end you’ll understand why just 86 stocks created half of all U.S. stock market wealth, why owning everything beats picking the winners, and the three specific situations where individual stocks actually make sense.

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