Adviser Quote by Bethany McLean

Building a portfolio around index funds isn’t really settling for the average. It’s just refusing to believe in magic.

— Bethany McLean

Nothing highlights better the continuing gap between rhetoric and substance in British financial services than the failure of providers here to emulate Jack Bogle's…

— Jonathan Davis

Even fans of actively managed funds often concede that most other investors would be better off in index funds. But buoyed by abundant self-confidence,…

— Paul Samuelson

Experience conclusively shows that index-fund buyers are likely to obtain results exceeding those of the typical fund manager, whose large advisory fees and substantial…

— Burton Malkiel

Most investors would be better off in an index fund.

— Peter Lynch

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…

— Paul Samuelson

In investing, you get what you don't pay for. Costs matter. So intelligent investors will use low-cost index funds to build a diversified portfolio…

— John C. Bogle

By periodically investing in an index fund, the know-nothing investors can actually outperform most investment professionals.

— Warren Buffett

The key aspect of an index fund is that many of them, not all of them, but many of them are extremely cheap.

— William J. Bernstein

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 than relying…

— Charlie Munger

With long-term investing, index funds are a great tool.

— Carl Nassib

If you invested in a very low cost index fund - where you don't put the money in at one time, but average in…

— Warren Buffett