Allocation Quote by Roger G. Ibbotson

On average, 90 percent of the variability of returns and 100 percent of the absolute level of return is explained by asset allocation.

— Roger G. Ibbotson

The most important key to successful investing can be summed up in just two words-asset allocation.

— Michael LeBoeuf

Most of the mutual fund investments I have are index funds, approximately 75%.

— Charles R. Schwab

If we observe the performance of only those funds that remain active, we will tend to find that the average performance of the surviving…

— Robert Haugen

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

Most investors would be better off in an index fund.

— Peter Lynch

Most investors are primarily oriented toward return, how much they can make and pay little attention to risk, how much they can lose.

— Seth Klarman

Assuming that the future is like the past, you can outperform 80 percent of your fellow investors over the next several decades by investing…

— Mark Hulbert

We live in a very risky world and investors should not get "carried away" with excessive allocations to equities, or for that matter, real…

— John C. Bogle

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

“Over the 210 years I have examined stock returns, the real return on a broadly diversified portfolio of stocks has averaged 6.6 percent per year.”

— Jeremy J. Siegel

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