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Trust in time rather than timing.
Burton Malkiel / Economist
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It's like giving up a belief in Santa Claus.
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Giving Up
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Santa
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Stupidity well packaged can sound like wisdom.
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Sound
Stupidity
Wells
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Never buy anything from someone who is out of breath.
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It's not that stock prices are capricious. It's that the news is capricious.
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News
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We conclude that hedge funds are far riskier and provide much lower returns than commonly supposed.
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Return
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Index funds do not trade from security to security and, thus, they tend to avoid capital gains taxes.
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Gains
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Taxes
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The surest way to find an actively managed fund that will have top-quartile returns is to look for a fund that has bottom-quartile expenses.
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Investing
Looks
Way
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A blindfolded monkey throwing darts at a newspaper's financial pages could select a portfolio that would do just as well as one carefully selected by experts.
Burton Malkiel / Economist
Experts
Monkeys
Pages
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Many of us economists who believe in efficiency do so because we view markets as amazingly successful devices for reflecting new information rapidly and, for the most part, accurately.
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Believe
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Views
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I have become increasingly convinced that the past records of mutual fund managers are essentially worthless in predicting future success. The few examples of consistently superior performance occur no more frequently than can be expected by chance.
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Historically, the stock market is like a gambling casino with the odds in your favor. Over the long pull, stocks are given something like nine and a half to ten percent compounded per year. The banks have probably given you something in the order of four to five.
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Odds
Order
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Index funds have regularly produced rates of return exceeding those of active managers by close to 2 percentage points. Active management as a whole cannot achieve gross returns exceeding the market as a while and therefore they must, on average, underperform the indexes by the amount of these expense and transaction costs disadvantages.
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Index funds are... tax friendly, allowing investors to defer the realization of capital gains or avoid them completely if the shares are later bequeathed. To the extent that the long-run uptrend in stock prices continues, switching from security to security involves realizing capital gains that are subject to tax. Taxes are a crucially important financial consideration because the earlier realization of capital gains will substantially reduce net returns.
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Running
Friendly
Long
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Experience conclusively shows that index-fund buyers are likely to obtain results exceeding those of the typical fund manager, whose large advisory fees and substantial portfolio turnover tend to reduce investment yields. Many people will find the guarantee of playing the stock-market game at par every round a very attractive one. The index fund is a sensible, serviceable method for obtaining the market's rate of return with absolutely no effort and minimal expense.
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Games
People
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J.P. Morgan once had a friend who was so worried about his stock holdings that he could not sleep at night. The friend asked, 'What should I do about my stocks?' Morgan replied, 'Sell down to your sleeping point' Every investor must decide the trade-off he or she is willing to make between eating well and sleeping well. High investment rewards can only be achieved at the cost of substantial risk-taking. So what is your sleeping point? Finding the answer to this question is one of the most important investment steps you must take.
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Eating Well
Night
Sleep
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