Most of the mutual fund investments I have are index funds, approximately 75%. — Charles R. Schwab Copy Share Image
I had done some work on index funds in my senior thesis at Princeton in 1951. — John C. Bogle Copy Share Image
Index funds are the only rational alternative for almost all mutual fund investors. — Mark Hulbert Copy Share Image
Index funds do not trade from security to security and, thus, they tend to avoid capital gains taxes. — Burton Malkiel Copy Share Image
I buy the market through index funds. Since I'm getting older, I buy TIPS. — Eugene Fama Copy Share Image
The long-term focus of index funds is a much needed counterweight to the short-termism favored by so many market participants. — John C. Bogle Copy Share Image
By periodically investing in an index fund, the know-nothing investors can actually outperform most investment professionals. — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
I have no special knowledge of markets, so I invest solely in low-expense index funds, plus some cryptocurrencies. — James Holzhauer Copy Share Image
If you invested in a very low cost index fund - where you don't put the money in at one time, but… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
The key aspect of an index fund is that many of them, not all of them, but many of them are extremely… — William J. Bernstein Copy Share Image
Building a portfolio around index funds isn’t really settling for the average. It’s just refusing to believe in magic. — Bethany McLean Copy Share Image
Index funds eliminate the risks of individual stocks, market sectors, and manager selection. Only stock market risk remains. — John C. Bogle Copy Share Image
We can extrapolate from the study that for the long term individual investor who maintains a consistent asset allocation and leans toward… — Roger G. Ibbotson Copy Share Image
I'd say the general outline of a sound investment approach is, first of all, you have to decide are you going to… — Whitney Tilson Copy Share Image
... skepticism about past returns is crucial. The truth is, much as you may wish you could know which funds will be… — Bethany McLean Copy Share Image
The commission of the investment sins listed above is not limited to 'the little guy.' Huge institutional investors, viewed as a group,… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
A minuscule 4 percent of funds produce market-beating after-tax results with a scant 0.6 percent (annual) margin of gain. The 96 percent… — David F. Swensen Copy Share Image
The S&P is up 343.8 percent for 10 years. That is a four-bagger. The general equity funds are up 283 percent. So… — Peter Lynch Copy Share Image
It's bad enough that you have to take market risk. Only a fool takes on the additional risk of doing yet more… — William J. Bernstein Copy Share Image
While it is probably a poor idea to own actively managed funds in general, it is truly a terrible idea to own… — William J. Bernstein Copy Share Image
An index fund is a fund that simply invests in all of the stocks in a market. So, for example, an index… — William J. Bernstein Copy Share Image
The simple index fund solution has been adopted as a cornerstone of investment strategy for many of the nation's pension plans operated… — David F. Swensen Copy Share Image
Index funds are... tax friendly, allowing investors to defer the realization of capital gains or avoid them completely if the shares are… — Burton Malkiel Copy Share Image
Our standard prescription for the know-nothing investor with a long-term time horizon is a no-load index fund. I think that works better… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
Nothing highlights better the continuing gap between rhetoric and substance in British financial services than the failure of providers here to emulate… — Jonathan Davis Copy Share Image
Still, I figure we shouldn't' discourage fans of actively managed funds. With all their buying and selling, active investors ensure the market… — Paul Samuelson Copy Share Image
Even fans of actively managed funds often concede that most other investors would be better off in index funds. But buoyed by… — Paul Samuelson Copy Share Image
Experience conclusively shows that index-fund buyers are likely to obtain results exceeding those of the typical fund manager, whose large advisory fees… — Burton Malkiel Copy Share Image
Invest in low-turnover, passively managed index funds... and stay away from profit-driven investment management organizations... The mutual fund industry is a colossal… — David F. Swensen Copy Share Image
When you look at the results on an after-fee, after-tax basis over reasonably long periods of time, there's almost no chance that… — David F. Swensen Copy Share Image
I was involved with Wells Fargo Bank as a consultant in the late 1960s and early 1970s, when I suggested to them… — Myron Scholes Copy Share Image
I am a huge, huge, huge fan of index funds. They are the investor’s best friend and Wall Street’s worst nightmare. — Jonathan Clements Copy Share Image
It seems to me - particularly for these retirement-plan investors, the vast majority of whom are not particularly financially sophisticated - by… — John C. Bogle Copy Share Image
“Three things saved us: Our unwavering 50% savings rate. Avoiding debt. We’ve never even had a car payment. Finally embracing the indexing… — J.L. Collins Copy Share Image
The best way in my view is to just buy a low-cost index fund and keep buying it regularly over time, because… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
Index funds have regularly produced rates of return exceeding those of active managers by close to 2 percentage points. Active management as… — Burton Malkiel Copy Share Image
After a lifetime of picking stocks, I have to admit that Bogle's arguments in favor of the index fund have me thinking… — Jim Cramer Copy Share Image
