Assets Quote by Charlie Munger

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

— James O'Shaughnessy

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

I'm making a case against how money managers are handling customers' money. The objective of the customer is not being met if the fund…

— Michael Lee-Chin

I like Burton Malkiel's 'A Random Walk Down Wall Street.' He comes to the same conclusion that I do - that indexing is the…

— John C. Bogle

Be true to yourself, and, um, don't worry about some large companies' quarterly profit index.

— Natalie Merchant

The objective of the customer is not being met if the fund managers are diversifying their assets into hundreds of businesses. If they do…

— Michael Lee-Chin

Index investing is an investment strategy that Walter Mitty would love. It takes very little investment knowledge, no skill, practically no time or effort-and…

— Michael LeBoeuf

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

— Bethany McLean

It seems to me - particularly for these retirement-plan investors, the vast majority of whom are not particularly financially sophisticated - by far the…

— John C. Bogle

Throughout the universe of public and private funds, managers are measured quarterly against one index or another, defined by statistics, and corralled into this…

— Michael Burry

Index funds have regularly produced rates of return exceeding those of active managers by close to 2 percentage points. Active management as a whole…

— Burton Malkiel

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