Still, I figure we shouldn't' discourage fans of actively managed funds. With all their buying and selling, active investors ensure the market is reasonably efficient. That makes it possible for the rest of us to do the sensible thing, which is to index. Want to join me in this parasitic behavior? To build a well-diversified portfolio, you might stash 70 percent of your stock portfolio into a Wilshire 5000-index fund and the remaining 30 percent in an international-index fund.
Good questions outrank easy answers. - Paul Samuelson
Good questions outrank easy answers.
- Paul Samuelson
Economics never was a dismal science. It should be a realistic science. - Paul Samuelson
Economics never was a dismal science. It should be a realistic science.
First, those who disagree with market efficiency simply assert that it stands to common sense that greater effort to get facts and greater acumen in … - Paul Samuelson
First, those who disagree with market efficiency simply assert that it stands to common sense that greater effort to get facts and greater acumen in …
I don't care who writes a nation's laws - or crafts its advanced treaties - if I can write its economics textbooks. - Paul Samuelson
I don't care who writes a nation's laws - or crafts its advanced treaties - if I can write its economics textbooks.
The stock market has predicted nine of the last five recessions. - Paul Samuelson
The stock market has predicted nine of the last five recessions.
Every good cause is worth some inefficiency. - Paul Samuelson
Every good cause is worth some inefficiency.
What we know about the global financial crisis is that we don't know very much. - Paul Samuelson
What we know about the global financial crisis is that we don't know very much.
Even fans of actively managed funds often concede that most other investors would be better off in index funds. But buoyed by abundant self-confidenc… - Paul Samuelson
Even fans of actively managed funds often concede that most other investors would be better off in index funds. But buoyed by abundant self-confidenc…
Politicians like to tell people what they want to hear - and what they want to hear is what won't happen. - Paul Samuelson
Politicians like to tell people what they want to hear - and what they want to hear is what won't happen.
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