Index funds are the only rational alternative for almost all mutual fund investors. — Mark Hulbert 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
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
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
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 do not trade from security to security and, thus, they tend to avoid capital gains taxes. — Burton Malkiel 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 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
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
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
