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In the Prussian army in the late nineteenth century, soldiers were occasionally killed by horse kicks — rare, but across a large army over many years, it happened with a certain regularity.
Trading Stocks Can Be Addictive
It has never been so easy to trade stocks. There are now all sorts of apps and websites that allow you to buy or sell in just a few moments. But Norma Cohen, a journalist with the Financial Times for many years, says it’s a worrying development.
Pioneers of Probability: Carl Friedrich Gauss
In the last episode, Legendre gave science its most powerful practical tool for fitting models to noisy data. He showed how to find the line — the function — that minimizes the sum of squared errors. He proved it worked. But he did not fully explain why it was the right method rather than simply a convenient one.
A Tour of IFA's Services
IFA Senior Vice President, Denise Delaney takes you through a tour of IFA's many services.
The Ballad of John Bogle and the HMS Vanguard
The Ballad of John Bogle and the HMS Vanguard
Pioneers of Probability: Adrien-Marie Legendre
It is 1801. In Palermo, Sicily. The astronomer Giuseppe Piazzi has spotted something new — a faint point of light moving against the stars.
Inferential Statistics: What 98 Years of Monthly Returns Can—and Cannot—Tell Investors
Understand why analyzing 98 years of market history improves return estimates but doesn't eliminate risk or predict future outcomes with certainty.
John Bogle's Cost Matters Hypothesis
Investors cannot control what markets will return. They can exert meaningful control over many of the costs they pay to capture those returns. John Bogle argued that this simple fact may be more important than any theory about whether markets are perfectly efficient.
Stay Calm, Tune Out the Noise, Invest and Relax
David Booth's new book reinforces an investment philosophy that Index Fund Advisors has taught since 1999: accept uncertainty, trust market prices, diversify broadly, follow the evidence, and stop trying to predict what cannot be predicted.
Who Actually Gains When Private Markets Open to Retail Investors
New research evaluates whether retail investors truly benefit from access to private equity and alternative assets. Find out the surprising results.
The Peasant Who Proved the Solar System Stable | Pierre-Simon Laplace (PoP EP12)
Learn about Pierre-Simon Laplace’s pivotal role in unifying probability theory and his influence on statistical modeling in finance.
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