In one of my earlier posts (Why is Smart Beta  >Alpha) I mentioned that it is almost impossible for an average investor to be able to beat the market i.e. generate alpha and to do so consistently over many years is even rarer. If you are in the class of people who can do this, you probably don’t need to read a blog about investing. But for the vast majority of people who are not astute investors when it comes to picking individual stocks, is there any hope of making good returns in the markets and in the process hopefully get rich? How does one go about making serious money in the markets if the possibility of generating oversized returns by picking individual stocks is basically non-existent? Well the good news is that it still can be done but there are a few things which you may ......