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"A low–cost index fund is the most sensible equity investment for the greatmajority of investors. My mentor, Ben Graham, took this position manyyears ago, and everything I have seen since convinces me of its truth.In this book, Jack Bogle tells you why."
—Warren E. Buffett, Chairman, Berkshire Hathaway Inc.

"John Bogle is living a useful life, and this book is a useful contribution to hisfellow citizens. It is dangerous for investors to believe a lot of nonsense,and the nonsense destroyers are particularly helpful when, like Bogle,they never tire in their animosity toward folly."
—Charles T. Munger, Vice Chairman, Berkshire Hathaway Inc.

"Whether you know it or not, Wall Street wants to steal your future.If you want to stop them, drop everything, read this marvelous little book,and take it to heart; your children, and their children′s children, will thank you."
—William Bernstein, investment adviser and author, The Four Pillars of Investing

Title Information

ISBN:

9780470102107

Pages:

240 pages

Format:

Hardback

Product Code:

151709

Publisher:

John Wiley & Sons Ltd

Published:

20/03/2007

Edition:

illustrated edition

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About John C. Bogle

JOHN C. BOGLE is founder of the Vanguard Group, Inc., and President of its Bogle Financial Markets Research Center. He created Vanguard in 1974 and served as chairman and chief executive officer until 1996 and senior chairman until 2000. In 1999, Fortune magazine named Mr. Bogle as one of the four "Investment Giants" of the twentieth century; in 2004, Time named him one of the world′s 100 most powerful and influential people, and Institutional Investor presented him with its Lifetime Achievement Award.

Contents of The Little Book of Common Sense Investing

Introduction

1: A Parable
2: Rational Exuberance
3: Cast Your Lot with Business
4: How Most Investors Turn a Winner's Game into a Loser's Game
5: The Grand Illusion
6: Taxes Are Costs, Too
7: When the Good Times No Longer Roll
8: Selecting Long-Term Winners
9: Yesterday's Winners, Tomorrow's Losers
10: Seeking Advice to Select Funds?
11: Focus on the Lowest-Cost Funds
12: Profit from the Majesty of Simplicity
13: Bond Funds and Money Market Funds
14: Index Funds That Promise to Beat the Market
15: The Exchange Traded Fund
16: What Would Benjamin Graham Have Thought about Indexing?
17: "The Relentless Rules of Humble Arithmetic."
18: What Should I Do Now?

Acknowledgments