OverThinkMuch
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I can't get through the paywall or see who wrote it, but most articles online are not written by someone with investment experience - they are not experts. The S&P 500 has returned in total +56% over the past 5 years according to etfdb's entry for SPY (S&P 500 ETF).Sorry, not buying it. Financial advisors, out of self-interest, hold out the promise of beating an index. But consistently beating an index? Over, say, a five year period? This New York Times reporter did not find a single example out of 2,132 mutual funds examined.
https://etfdb.com/etf/SPY/#performance
Here's their list of the top 100 ETFs over the past 5 years, ALL of which beat the S&P 500. I conclude they didn't do 5 minutes of research, or excluded ETFs for no good reason.
https://etfdb.com/compare/highest-5-year-returns/