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TIME Your book trashes the fund industry for its high fees and misleading ads and advises folks to stick with index funds. Didn't John Bogle at Vanguard beat you to this drum by, oh, a couple of decades...
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 Domestic, foreign developed and emerging-market stocks, REITs, government bonds and inflation-indexed bonds--all through low-cost index funds. Regardless of what happens to interest rates and currencies, you ought to get a decent result...
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...
...mention of the Academic Index floor—a lower-bound cutoff that prevents students with anything lower than approximately an 1100 to 1150 on the SATs from even being considered—and no discussion of the Ivy League’s AI banding policy, which sets the percentage of a school’s 30 recruits that must fit into different ranges of SAT scores and GPA levels—the components...