The Little Book of Common Sense Investing: The Only Way to Guarantee Your Fair Share of Stock Market Returns (Little Books. Big Profits)

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What several investors and academics—from Warren Buffett and Benjamin Graham to Paul Samuelson and Burton Malkiel—have to say about index investing.

It′s an easy read that will, I suspect, quickly join Burton Malkiel′s A Random Walk Down Wall Streetand Charles Ellis′s Winning the Loser′s Gameas one of the indexing crowd′s favorite books. Are taxes not exactly what he is describing here in a way that would positively impact everyone, rather than just the lucky few who can afford to invest? Like, he keeps on talking about how Main Street can make investing work for it, but like, what is this "Main Street?I selected this book because it is the Anniversary edition and figured it had the most info as it pertains to updated examples-2017economics-recent political climate. Not an extensive guide as it could have compared this passive strategy to invest in the market with some other strategies but a strong guidebook nevertheless. Used books have different signs of use and might not include supplemental materials such as CDs, Dvds, Access Codes, charts or any other extra material.

My mentor, Ben Graham, took this position manyyears ago, and everything I have seen since convinces me of its truth. I felt like this should have been explained more given the immense popularity of broad market index ETFs.

To learn how to make index investing work for you, there's no better mentor than legendary mutual fund industry veteran John C. Not that we thought he was bad, but made us put the brakes on moving ahead with any of his suggestions immediately. It is commonly given advice to the investing public and perhaps the most common investment strategy for retirement funds. It contains just the right amount of empirical evidence in the form of statistics, graphs, and charts to be convincing, but not eye-glazingly boring. This book is essentially a dismantling of vast swaths of the financial industry, especially the mutual fund.