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The Professor Who Was Right About Index Funds All Along

TedTed
in Fund Discussions
FYI: Burton Malkiel has been saying the same thing about investing for more than 40 years. What’s new is that a big chunk of the financial industry now admits he was right all along.

In 1973, Malkiel, a Princeton professor, published the first version of his investment guide, A Random Walk Down Wall Street. He wrote that “a blindfolded monkey throwing darts at the stock listings could select a portfolio that would do just as well as one selected by the experts.” Since most investors can’t beat the market average over time, he argued, they’d be better off in some kind of low-fee fund that simply held all of the stocks on a widely followed index. Problem was, no such retail fund existed.
Regards,
Ted
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-09-22/the-professor-who-was-right-about-index-funds-all-along

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  • Sven
    The book is a classic. I still have the 7th edition of that book and it was a reading assignment for my business class. In addition, Vanguard has a number of good articles under News & Perspective.
  • kevindowkevindow
    The book is available as a pdf file by using the Google machine.

    Kevin
  • Sven
    Thank you. Now I have an electronic copy.
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