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Like, the stock market has created an almost unbelievable amount of wealth over the last century,

but the surprising truth is that most individual stocks have failed to deliver. Today, we're unpacking why the biggest danger

for investors may not be missing the market, but building a retirement plan that depends

on finding the rare few winners.

My name's Casey Weed, and I am here with fellow certified financial planner, my good friend and co-host, Marshall Johnson.

Hey, buddy, we're getting into it today.

Hey, I love it.

This is a great article and really

makes you think about numbers, numbers, and how you invest and how you may want to invest. Yeah,

we're covering, I came across this article, and we included it in our weekend reading for retirees email,

goes out every Friday, sign up retireth purpose.com. Yeah, this is an article that caught my attention because

it was really data-driven. I love some good numbers. And I don't think most people realize

just how concentrated stock market returns are and have been. I think more people view it today

is, oh, yeah, stock markets really concentrated

in these handful of stocks. But I think you have to go back the last hundred years to really

see the big picture. You got to zoom out. I think this article does a great job of doing that.

It is written and authored by one of our past podcast guests, Larry Swedro. I found it on

wealth management.com.

It's titled A Century of Stock Market Winters and why most stocks failed to deliver.

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