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The Little Book of Common Sense Investing
- The Only Way to Guarantee Your Fair Share of Stock Market Returns, 10th Anniversary Edition
- Narrated by: L. J. Ganser
- Length: 5 hrs and 50 mins
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Summary
The best-selling investing "bible" offers new information, new insights, and new perspectives
The Little Book of Common Sense Investing is the classic guide to getting smart about the market. Legendary mutual fund pioneer John C. Bogle reveals his key to getting more out of investing: low-cost index funds. Bogle describes the simplest and most effective investment strategy for building wealth over the long term: buy and hold, at very low cost, a mutual fund that tracks a broad stock market Index such as the S&P 500.
While the stock market has tumbled and then soared since the first edition of The Little Book of Common Sense Investing was published in April 2007, Bogle's investment principles have endured and served investors well. This tenth anniversary edition includes updated data and new information but maintains the same long-term perspective as in its predecessor. Bogle has also added two new chapters designed to provide further guidance to investors: one on asset allocation, the other on retirement investing.
A portfolio focused on index funds is the only investment that effectively guarantees your fair share of stock market returns. This strategy is favored by Warren Buffett, who said this about Bogle: "For decades, Jack has urged investors to invest in ultra-low-cost index funds.... Today, however, he has the satisfaction of knowing that he helped millions of investors realize far better returns on their savings than they otherwise would have earned. He is a hero to them and to me."
Bogle shows you how to make index investing work for you and help you achieve your financial goals and finds support from some of the world's best financial minds: not only Warren Buffett but Benjamin Graham, Paul Samuelson, Burton Malkiel, Yale's David Swensen, Cliff Asness of AQR, and many others.
This new edition of The Little Book of Common Sense Investing offers you the same solid strategy as its predecessor for building your financial future.
- Build a broadly diversified, low-cost portfolio without the risks of individual stocks, manager selection, or sector rotation.
- Forget the fads and marketing hype, and focus on what works in the real world.
- Understand that stock returns are generated by three sources (dividend yield, earnings growth, and change in market valuation) in order to establish rational expectations for stock returns over the coming decade.
- Recognize that in the long run, business reality trumps market expectations.
- Learn how to harness the magic of compounding returns while avoiding the tyranny of compounding costs.
While index investing allows you to sit back and let the market do the work for you, too many investors trade frantically, turning a winner's game into a loser's game. The Little Book of Common Sense Investing is a solid guidebook to your financial future.
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- Alan M Hurley
- 23-12-21
Good book
Basically outlines and gives the rationale why everyone should use index funds. This is my …
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- Mr Curious
- 13-02-23
Powerful insights
This book was quick and simple to listen to and really opened my thoughts up to concepts of the long term mean reversion and zero sum game in the way that markets work.
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- Amazon Customer
- 09-02-20
pdf file was not available
great book but pdf was not available. so it was difficult to refer to certain aspects of the audiobook
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- Carl c.
- 07-12-21
very helpful
a very helpful book and has made me more aware of other types of investing and to look more into the future instead of fast and quick unsafe gains
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- LC
- 19-10-18
Excellent explanation of the benefits of low cost index funds
Excellent explanation of the benefits of low cost index funds. This is backed up by simple logic as well as historical statistics. This book helped me understand why low cost index funds are such an important investments vehicle for investors to be aware of.
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- sam zemura
- 27-02-24
excellent read
True bible of passive management, and a frontal attack on the financial industry. Very informative book.
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- M. Watters
- 06-05-20
A must listen/read before you invest a penny
Excellent listen, I wish I had of listened to this 45 days before opening a stocks & shares ISA with Hargreaves & Lansdown and sinking £12k into individual stocks and shares. This book offers the solution I was looking for which is indexing and the simplicity that goes along with it. I run my own business and I just dont have the time to research individual stocks so indexing is better suited to my needs, this book pointed that out with a big stick and I am now taking the indexing route with a Vanguard stocks and shares ISA. Thank you John G. Bogle.
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- Christopher Mugeli
- 18-09-21
Sound advice, if a little repetitive at times
A great insight into why traditional index funds are a powerhouse for investing in a diversified market which will almost always beat managed funds and other investment vehicles in the long run. The narrators voice is a little grating at times, and the messages are somewhat repetitive, but if you're interested in an easy, low risk way to invest in the stock market this book gives ample advice on how and why to pick TIFs.
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- Jason Eyermann
- 16-05-24
simple message but very effective
pretty much the whole book could be summed up in one sentence but the message really gets drilled into you. recommend you read this book
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- MR TP HENSBY
- 03-11-18
Good book - but where is the pdf?
This interesting book on the principles of passive investment is let down by the frequent references, in the audio narration, to an accompanying pdf which is not provided anywhere. I have emailed audible about this but only received an automated reply. Where is it?
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