Word: indexation
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...stock market has a brutal way of making even the smartest people look foolish. Just ask Bill Miller, America's most celebrated mutual fund manager, whose Legg Mason Value Trust has beaten the S&P 500 stock index for 14 years running. A brilliant polymath whose intellectual passions range from chaos theory to Wittgenstein, Miller has trounced his rivals by thinking differently. But lately the investor, who is based in Baltimore, Md., has looked a tad less clever. In the past two years, oil and gas stocks surged as the price of oil nearly tripled...
...Lane isn't just exhausted. Last night, in the grand old tradition of pre-opening theatrical disasters, he accidentally slammed his right index finger in a door and wound up in the hospital with a fracture, 14 stitches and a prescription for Vicodin. His finger is splinted and swathed in a huge white bandage...
American children are eating restaurant-prepared fried foods more frequently, leading to higher body mass index (BMI) and poor diet quality, according to a study conducted by Harvard Medical School (HMS) researchers...
Swensen If individuals follow a simple recipe and stay diversified with index funds, they've got a fighting chance. You won't talk about it at cocktail parties, but you should have success...
Swensen We found that the after-tax shortfall of actively managed funds compared to an index was 2.8% per year over 20 years. Put another way: your chance of picking a managed fund that will beat an index is less than 1 in 7--and that doesn't factor in sales commissions...