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Pros
New kid of index mutual fund that could be traded 'all day long, in real time' was created. He covers a lot about attempts to make investing fairer and cheaper for all of us. He reminds us that investing does not have to be complex. Using index funds ... Read More
Bogle packs the book with data and examples to illustrate his viewpoint. It is his priceless integrity and incorruptible motives thus revealed that has long inspired me.
As the financial markets swing back and forth, do you best to ignore the momentary cacophony, and to separate the transitory from the durable. A fresh review of the worst sins of our financial culture.
Resisting the new dominance of speculation over investment might seem to fly in the face of our ever more scientific and technological world. Since privately-held investment management firms have no shareholders they need to please, they achieve a bet... Read More
Cons
The mutual fund business is full of deception greed. Author basically says his firm and their brightest were horrible over a stretch.
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Quality
Invested for sufficient time with the upward bias of stock prices and low investing costs works well for longterm profit
Bogle compares the speculative culture with the buy hold and stay the course culture promoted by him throughout his highly illu... Read More
The fund management vote the shares of corporations owned in mutual funds with the desires of the management of the companies owned
Asset allocation for bogle is primarily between a total stock market index fund and a total bond market index fund with the bon... Read More
Price
Jack walks you through the structure of wall street and what it costs you
Minimizing the cost of investing in low cost funds and trading little keeps more of the profit in your pocket
Packaging/appearance
Stay away from the advisers that want you to speculate and charge you loads
The market does however do very well by those who play the role of the bookies
Competitiveness
Bogle does a straightforward explaination of how the industry has changed from encouraging investment to encouraging specilation
Reinforces the practice of longterm investing and keeping an eye on the cost of investing
The clash of the cultures investment vs
In a world inclined to measure success in dollar terms jack bogle would not even warrant honorable mention
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financial, long, mutual and many. - Our engine has profiled the reviewer patterns and has determined that there is minimal deception involved.
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- Our engine has discovered that over 80% high quality reviews are present.
- This product had a total of 331 reviews as of our last analysis date on Nov 15 2023.
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Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
Speculation — and shortterm devastation — in equities is entirely avoidable
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The lack of fiduciary duty of certain money managers prevent the investors to get the most out of their investment
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After listening to a couple of bogles books i am even more hesitant to invest in the casino called wallstreet
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
Stay away from the advisers that want you to speculate and charge you loads
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By all means get your assets out of wherever they are and get them into vanguard
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
The evolved culture of speculators he describes is both pervasive and dangerous
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
Since i was already familiar with jacks work there were few surprises for me in this book
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As william bernstein pointed out in his review the large wall street investment firms have been a failure in terms of helping the average investor achieve his financial goals
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