A few days ago, this was linked http://atans1.wordpress.com/2010/01/01/the-perils-of-indexation-revised-and-updated/ explaining that investing in equities indices could go wrong. It is not a "no-brainer".
This NYT article explains how in the US context investors could have come out ahead in the last decade through a plan of diversification, regular investments and annual rebalancing, all using low-cost index funds.
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