I shared this link on the blog's Facebook page a few days ago, but thought I should share it here as well as some of my thoughts on it as well: The Most Successful Investors Leave Their Money Alone (The article is on Business Insider but the info is from SigFig) The first piece of data is that the top 1% of people studied (who has synced assets of $5 million or more), had better returns than the other 99%, a return of 5.8% vs 4.3%. Some may say that this is due to more opportunities afforded by the rich, for example, hedge funds. But looking at the next two charts, it shows that the wealthiest 1% had a much lower portfolio turnover a year and that people who were infrequent traders had a much higher return than frequent traders (frequent defined as investors who have a turnover ......