Indexing Quote by Charles R. Schwab

The word passive does a disservice to investors considering their options. Indexing provides an effective means of owning the market and allows investors to…

— Charles R. Schwab

I favour passive investing for most investors, because markets are amazingly successful devices for incorporating information into stock prices.

— Merton Miller

Of course. I favor passive investing for most investors, because markets are amazingly successful devices for incorporating information into stock prices.

— Merton Miller

I'm a passive investor. There are people who are very aggressive; they try to buy companies.

— Walter Schloss

Indexing is a successful approach to investing not because it's simple, but because it has performed so much better than the average active manager…

— Patrick Geddes

Unless an investor has access to “incredibly high-qualified professionals,” they “should be 100 percent passive - that includes almost all individual investors and most…

— David F. Swensen

What indexing does is neutralize a large part of the stock market. There's no trading in those stocks, or almost none.

— John C. Bogle

To value investors the concept of indexing is at best silly and at worst quite hazardous. Warren Buffett has observed that "in any sort…

— Seth Klarman

Active investment is a zero-sum game. Passive managers don't play the game. They buy something resembling the market as a whole, or some segment…

— Eugene Fama

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

The average investor does significantly worse than a simple index... It's literally because of the way our brains are wired.

— James O'Shaughnessy

After costs, only the top 3% of managers produce a return that indicates they have sufficient skill to just cover their costs, which means…

— Eugene Fama