Should You Forget Picking Individual Stocks and Buy This Index Fund Instead?

The article argues that individual stock picking requires significant time and effort for monitoring and selection. For dividend investors, Schwab U.S. Dividend Equity ETF (SCHD) offers a passive alternative that automatically selects and rebalances 100 well-run dividend-growth companies, delivering a 3.2% yield with minimal effort and a low 0.06% expense ratio.