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# Mark Hulbert

(1954)   Journalist

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Mark Hulbert is a journalist.

## Quick Facts About Mark Hulbert

Born November 30, 1954

Profession Journalist

## About Mark Hulbert

American journalist... \| Mark J. Hulbert is an American finance analyst, journalist, and author with a focus on expectations of stock market investment newsletters, contrarian investing, and quantitive or technical analysis.

##  Quotes by Mark Hulbert

> [Assuming that the future is like the past, you can outperform 80 percent of your fellow investors over the next several decades…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-hulbert/assuming-that-the-future-is-like-the-past-you-can-outperform-80/)

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> [These results add up to perhaps the most important investment lesson of all that can be drawn from this week's market anniversaries:…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-hulbert/these-results-add-up-to-perhaps-the-most-important-investment-lesson/)

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> [It is very hard, if not impossible," he wrote in his study, "to justify active management for most individual, taxable investors, if…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-hulbert/it-is-very-hard-if-not-impossible-he-wrote-in-his-study-to-justify/)

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> [Index funds are the only rational alternative for almost all mutual fund investors.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-hulbert/index-funds-are-the-only-rational-alternative-for-almost-all-mutual/)

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