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The first part reviews the academic studies which overwhelmingly show that you are extremely unlikely to beat a broad market index with actively managed funds whether you pick them or hire someone to pick them especially after costs are deducted

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By the way the portfolios shown in previous of ricks books survived the market colapse and made money for the investor throught out the entire period

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Even though over a year ago i had read other books that advocated this investment approach and i believed that it made sense i really did not do anything about it

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After reading his book i realized that it made no sense waiting around for some miracle to happen and i have now switched to a passive allocation model using passive investments wherever i was able to do so

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I consider myself to be a logical person and i have read that past results dont predict future results but i bought the wall street hype that told me that somebody out there has the secret to beat the market

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I needed this book to beat me over the head and get me out of my stupor

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These are explained in his other books

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A point i need to be reminded of given my penchant to wanting to try to beat the equity indexes book reminds and supports that this is incredibly hard to do over longer time frames