One of my favourite cartoons shows a doctor examining a patient and saying: ‘‘I could easily fix your back problem, but then you would have nothing left to complain about.”

I give a similar response to clients who constantly ask whether they’d be better off simply holding the S&P 500 instead of a portfolio of individual stocks. Without any lemons in the mix, there would be nothing for them to throw at me in our meetings. ..

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