David Brancaccio
speaker
2,652 appearances
78 recordings
2 series
first heard Dec 2025
last heard 5 May
David Brancaccio’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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He joins us from New Jersey.
Dr. Malkiel, welcome.
Delighted to be with you.
13 editions of Random Walk.
I have my dog-eared copy.
I gave a gift of your book to my kids when they were starting out.
But for those new to it, Professor, you make the case that what?
It's pretty darn hard to beat the market averages by picking individual stocks?
Now, none of this means you shouldn't tend to your portfolio.
Keep an eye on it.
Rebalance it.
Don't just set it and forget it.
I'm thinking of somebody, though.
I mean, you do acknowledge that some people are OK at this.
Some people have figured it out, it seems, how to beat the market.
You must have known the late Jim Simons, the mathematician at Stony Brook and hedge fund manager at Renaissance Technologies.
I mean, he made a fortune for his investors taking advantage of market inefficiencies that his mathematical models seem to identify.
Burton Malkiel, the author of what many consider the most influential book about investing of all time.
It's called A Random Walk Down Wall Street.
More than two million copies in print.
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