If there's 10,000 people looking at the stocks and trying to pick winners, one in 10,000 is going to score, by chance alone, a great coup, and that's all that's going on. It's a game, it's a chance operation, and… — Merton Miller Copy Share Image
... Any pension fund manager who doesn't have the vast majority-and I mean 70% or 80% of his or her portfolio-in passive investments is… — Merton Miller Copy Share Image
I should mention that I am a member of the board of directors of Dimensional Fund Advisors. — Merton Miller Copy Share Image
My expertise was in public finance, particularly corporate taxation, since I had worked at the US Treasury. — Merton Miller Copy Share Image
I can't speak for them, of course, but I believe that most economists would accept the view that, while you sometimes can make a… — Merton Miller Copy Share Image
Everyone recognizes that's a joke because obviously the number and shape of the pieces doesn't affect the size of the pizza. And similarly, the… — Merton Miller Copy Share Image
Most people might just as well buy a share of the whole market, which pools all the information, than delude themselves into thinking they… — Merton Miller Copy Share Image
But in practice, if often comes down to not suffering a loss as big as the huge gain you made a while ago. — Merton Miller Copy Share Image
You only need to make one big score in finance to be a hero forever. — Merton Miller Copy Share Image
As an economics undergraduate, I also worked on a part-time basis in Cambridge, Massachusetts, for a company that was advising customers about portfolio decisions,… — Merton Miller Copy Share Image
