It sounds reasonable at first glance: Shares on the ASX are up more than 5 per cent over the year to date - add your dividends and you might get close to a 9 percent total return. But then we have a 17 per cent year-to -date return on Wall Street. This is not a once-off: Wall Street has beaten the ASX out the door for more than decade, will it ever change?

Gemma Dale, head of investor behaviour at nabtrade joins Associate Editor - Wealth, James Kirby in this episode.

In today's show, we cover:

The hard evidence that local shares let you down Why Wall Street wins ...and it's not just Trump
Gold puts crypto in the shade
Should SMSFs pay levy for bad advice?

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Have Aussie shares let you down this year?