Behavior Quote by Simon Mainwaring

We have moved from treating funds as investment trusts designed to serve their owner-beneficiaries to treating funds as consumer products, designed to attract the…

— John C. Bogle

First, only invest in companies that have the potential to return the value of the entire fund.

— Peter Thiel

I started a private equity fund and we invest in energy, mining, agriculture kind of things in Africa.

— Erik Prince

Private equity funds a substantial amount of new businesses and is the source of capital to rejuvenate failing businesses, which are major drivers of…

— N. Robert Hammer

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

Invest as efficiently as you can, using low-cost funds that can be bought and held for a lifetime.

— John C. Bogle

With actively managed funds, people have big behavior problems. With funds that have done well, they put their money in, and when it has…

— John C. Bogle

Try to pick a fund manager who has a well-defined strategy, has been through these things before, and go invest and stay with him.

— Peter Cundill

We need to reorganize our entire system of retirement plan investing and to develop federal standards of fiduciary duty for pension trustees and fund…

— John C. Bogle

A mutual fund can do for you what you would do for yourself if you had sufficient time, training, and money to diversify, plus…

— Venita VanCaspel

Invest in low-turnover, passively managed index funds... and stay away from profit-driven investment management organizations... The mutual fund industry is a colossal failure... resulting…

— David F. Swensen

Over the past several decades, a growing number of investors have been choosing to put their money in funds that screen companies for their…

— Rebecca MacKinnon