The Little Book of Common Sense Investing in English
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Acknowledgments
14 May 2025
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Acknowledgments IN WRITING THIS BOOK, I have received incredibly wonderful support from the entire (three-person) staff of Bogle Financial Markets ...
What Should I Do Now?
14 May 2025
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Chapter Eighteen What Should I Do Now? - Funny Money, Serious Money, and Investment Strategy DEEP DOWN, I REMAIN absolutely confident that the v...
The Relentless Rules of Humble Arithmetic
14 May 2025
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Chapter Seventeen “The Relentless Rules of Humble Arithmetic” - Reprise IF THE MESSAGE IN this book comes across as confident, please unders...
What Would Benjamin Graham Have Thought about Indexing?
14 May 2025
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Chapter Sixteen What Would Benjamin Graham Have Thought about Indexing? - A Confirmation from Mr. Buffett THE FIRST EDITION OF The Intelligent I...
The Exchange Traded Fund
14 May 2025
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Chapter Fifteen The Exchange Traded Fund - A Trader to the Cause EVEN BEFORE THE RISE of the so-called new paradigm of fundamental indexing desc...
Index Funds That Promise to Beat the Market
14 May 2025
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Chapter Fourteen Index Funds That Promise to Beat the Market - The New Paradigm? SINCE THE INCEPTION OF the first index mutual fund in 1975, in...
Bond Funds and Money Market Funds
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Chapter Thirteen Bond Funds and Money Market Funds - Where Those Relentless Rules Are Even More Powerful SO FAR, MY DISCUSSION of the index fund...
Profit from the Majesty of Simplicity
14 May 2025
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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 t...
Focus on the Lowest-Cost Funds
14 May 2025
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Chapter Eleven ¸ Focus on the Lowest- Cost Funds - The More the Managers Take, the Less the Investors Make. WHAT LESSONS HAVE YOU learned in Ch...
Seeking Advice to Select Funds?
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Chapter Ten Seeking Advice to Select Funds? - Look beforeYou Leap. THE EVIDENCE PRESENTED in Chapters 8 and 9 teaches two lessons: (1) Selecting...
Yesterday’s Winners, Tomorrow’s Losers
06 May 2025
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Chapter Nine Yesterday’s Winners, Tomorrow’s Losers - Fooled by Randomness* IN SELECTING MUTUAL FUNDS, most fund investors seem to rely, not...
Selecting Long-Term Winners
06 May 2025
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Chapter Eight Selecting Long-Term Winners - Don’t Look for the Needle— Buy the Haystack. SELECTING WINNING FUNDS in advance is more diffi- ...
When the Good Times No Longer Roll
06 May 2025
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Chapter Seven When the Good Times No Longer Roll - What Happens If Future Returns Are Lower? REMEMBER THE UNFAILING principle described in Chap...
Taxes Are Costs, Too
06 May 2025
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Chapter Six Taxes Are Costs, Too - Don’t Pay Uncle Sam Any More Than You Should. WE STILL AREN’T THROUGH with these relentless rules of humb...
The Grand Illusion
02 May 2025
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Chapter Five The Grand Illusion - Surprise! The Returns Reported by Mutual Funds Aren’t Actually Earned by Mutual Fund Investors. IT IS GRATIF...
How Most Investors Turn a Winner’s Game Into a Loser’s Game
02 May 2025
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Chapter Four How Most Investors Turn a Winner’s Game Into a Loser’s Game - “The Relentless Rules of Humble Arithmetic” BEFORE WE TURN TO ...
Cast Your Lot With Business
02 May 2025
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Chapter Three Cast Your Lot With Business - Rely on Occam’s Razor to Win by Keeping It Simple. SO HOW DO YOU cast your lot with business? Simpl...
Rational Exuberance
02 May 2025
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Chapter Two Rational Exuberance - Business Reality Trumps Market Expectations. THAT WONDERFUL PARABLE ABOUT the Gotrocks family in Chapter 1 bri...
A Parable
02 May 2025
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Chapter One A Parable - The Gotrocks Family EVEN BEFORE YOU THINK about “index funds”— in their most basic form, mutual funds that simply b...
Introduction
02 May 2025
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Introduction - Don’t Allow a Winner’s Game to Become a Loser’s Game. SUCCESSFUL INVESTING IS ALL about common sense. As the Oracle has said...