Power of Passive Investing

More Wealth with Less Work

288 pages

English language

Published July 5, 2010 by Wiley & Sons, Incorporated, John.

ISBN:
978-0-470-93712-9
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"Time and time again, individual investors discover - all too late - that picking stocks is a loser's game. The alternative lies with index funds. Index funds allows investors to invest more cheaply while prospering all the more because the money saved on investment expenses stays in one's own pocket. Because index funds are diversified, investors who use them suffer less than investors who concentrate their portfolios in single asset classes, or in only a few stocks. It's Wall Street's little mentioned secret that index funds always seemed to outperform most active investment managers over the long run-by a wide margin. Ferri shows investors how easy and fun index investing is, and how successful one can be as an investor, by using simply using cost-effective index funds to allocate to stocks, bonds, and other prudent asset classes"--

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A well written book, it provided good evidence for staying away from active investing unless you have the skills and time for pursuing such a path. For the layman, it appears that long-term investing is best practiced by investing in options that require little management in order to reduce fees, and avoid thinking that the market can be beaten by a great amount.

At times the book can get a little repetitive in explaining the sources of evidence for passive over active investing. It does provide other books to read to get into the nitty gritty, it would have been helpful to have that list compiled at the end of the book.

Subjects

  • Investments
  • Mutual funds