The Little Book of Common Sense Investing in English

Raja Babu
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To Paul A. Samuelson, professor of economics at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Nobel Laureate, investment sage. In 1948 when I was a student at Princeton University, his classic textbook introduced me to economics. In 1974, his writings reignited my interest in market indexing as an investment strategy. In 1976, his Newsweek column applauded my cre- ation of the world’s first index mutual fund. In 1993, he wrote the foreword to my first book, and in 1999 he provided a powerful endorsement for my second. Now in his ninety-second year, he remains my mentor, my inspiratio

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    Acknowledgments

    Acknowledgments IN WRITING THIS BOOK, I have received incredibly wonderful support from the entire (three-person) staff of Bogle Financial Markets Research Center, the Vanguard- supported unit that began its formal activities at the beginning of 2000.

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    What Should I Do Now?

    Chapter Eighteen What Should I Do Now? - Funny Money, Serious Money, and Investment Strategy DEEP DOWN, I REMAIN absolutely confident that the vast majority of American families will be well served by owning their equity holdings in an all-U.S.

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    The Relentless Rules of Humble Arithmetic

    Chapter Seventeen “The Relentless Rules of Humble Arithmetic” - Reprise IF THE MESSAGE IN this book comes across as confident, please understand that it is little more than common sense. Even more, please understand that my confidence in the index fund is buttressed by the conclusions of many of the smartest, most experienced, most successful in- vestors in the United States including Warren Buffett, Charlie Munger, and Benjamin Graham, along with top academics and endowment managers—Nobel Laureates Paul Samuelson, William Sharpe, and Daniel Kahneman and Princeton’s Burton Malkiel, Yale’s David Swensen, Harvard’s Jack Meyer, and MIT’s Andrew Lo.

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    What Would Benjamin Graham Have Thought about Indexing?

    Chapter Sixteen What Would Benjamin Graham Have Thought about Indexing? - A Confirmation from Mr. Buffett THE FIRST EDITION OF The Intelligent Investor was pub- lished in 1949. It was written by Benjamin Graham, the most respected money manager of the era, and coauthor (with David Dodd) of Security Analysis, a scholarly tome originally published in 1934.

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    The Exchange Traded Fund

    Chapter Fifteen The Exchange Traded Fund - A Trader to the Cause EVEN BEFORE THE RISE of the so-called new paradigm of fundamental indexing described in Chapter 14, traditional indexing was being challenged by a sort of wolf-in-sheep’s clothing, the exchange traded fund (ETF).

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    Index Funds That Promise to Beat the Market

    Chapter Fourteen Index Funds That Promise to Beat the Market - The New Paradigm? SINCE THE INCEPTION OF the first index mutual fund in 1975, indexing—investing in passively managed, broadly diversified, low-cost, stock and bond index funds—has proved to be both a remarkable artistic success and a re- markable commercial success.

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    Bond Funds and Money Market Funds

    Chapter Thirteen Bond Funds and Money Market Funds - Where Those Relentless Rules Are Even More Powerful SO FAR, MY DISCUSSION of the index fund (and its hand- maiden, low investment costs) has related to the stock market and to equity mutual funds.

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    Profit from the Majesty of Simplicity

    Chapter Twelve Profit from the Majesty of Simplicity - Hold Index Funds That Own the Entire Stock Market. IF LOW COSTS ARE GOOD (and I don’t think a single an- alyst, academic, or industry expert would disagree that low costs are good), why wouldn’t it be logical to focus on the lowest-cost funds of all—index funds that own the en- tire stock market?

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To Paul A. Samuelson, professor of economics at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Nobel Laureate, investment sage. In 1948 when I was a student at Princeton University, his classic textbook introduced me to economics. In 1974, his writings reignited my interest in market indexing as an investment strategy. In 1976, his Newsweek column applauded my cre- ation of the world’s first index mutual fund. In 1993, he wrote the foreword to my first book, and in 1999 he provided a powerful endorsement for my second. Now in his ninety-second year, he remains my mentor, my inspiratio

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