Vladislav Stepanov/iStock via Getty Images Introduction Are you beating the market? If you're not, I can assure you that you're not the only one. Financial firms of all stripes are marketing their creative trades to clients beset with uncertainty about the economy and Federal Reserve policy. Yet virtually no allocation has proved as lucrative as the simplest of them all: Buying and holding the S&P 500. - Bloomberg (emphasis added) Generally speaking, I do not care about beating the market every single year. ...