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The Little Book of Common Sense Investing
- Narrated by: Thom Pinto
- Length: 5 hrs and 7 mins
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Summary
John C. Bogle's The Little Book of Index Investing is a power-packed explanation of why outperforming the market is an investor illusion. Instead, the founder of The Vanguard Group—the man who's been called "the conscience of the investment industry"*—recommends a simple, time-tested investment strategy that can deliver the greatest return to the greatest number of investors: indexing. Why? Investing is a zero-sum game where transaction costs, taxes, poor investment diversification, and poor market-timing (an affliction for most investors) hurts your portfolio more than it helps. Indexing eliminates that hurt. Bottom-line, if you can't be an index, why not invest in one? And you'll be all the happier and richer for it.
*Time Magazine
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"John C. Bogle...has the mind of an economist and the personality of a preacher." ( The Washington Post)
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Overall3 out of 5 stars
- Gordon
- 31-07-19
Good concept, but far too much repition.
Would advise watching a summary video on youtube for 5 minutes. His point is made in the first 15minutes and he really doesnt introduce any significant points or thinking to justify listening to through for another 5 hours.
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- Mr
- 16-01-19
A strong argument, dragged out for too long.
The TLDR of this book is: "Buy index funds, because active management can't outperform the market, and charge large fees that mean they deliver below market-average returns to their investors".
This argument is supported by plenty of strong data, is hard to argue with, and is worth hearing for anyone looking to invest their savings. Unfortunately the one sentence premise is stretched out to over 5 hours, and the message simply doesn't need to be delivered over that much time. This is an article drawn out into a book.
Narrator is fine.
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- Nikola Petkov
- 11-10-17
Extremely happy with it
Novice investor here. I found the book very concise and informative at any point. Well explained and easy to understand.
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