Yes, the average investor get's sold relatively expensive funds. Yes they are different, but there are strategies like GDP-weighting that offset most of the ben

Yes, the average investor get's sold relatively expensive funds. Yes they are different, but there are strategies like GDP-weighting that offset most of the benefits. As in, the returns of GDP-weighted Worldwide stock are much closer to a good manual fund, when compared to a simple marketcap-weighted fund encompassing the same stocks.