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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.
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.
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The Ballad of John Bogle and the HMS Vanguard
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Most of us spend a great deal of time and energy building up our wealth. But how often do we think about making sure the people we care about will be properly looked after if something happens to us.
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.
New research evaluates whether retail investors truly benefit from access to private equity and alternative assets. Find out the surprising results.
The small cap value premium re-emerged in 2026. Then it went away again. Then it came back. Anyone holding out for the numbers to settle first was holding out for something short-run returns never do. Look at what your portfolio told you about the small cap value premium this
On August 31, 1976, a small mutual fund called First Index Investment Trust began operations. It aimed to raise between $50 million and $150 million in its initial underwriting. It raised a little more than $11 million — “an abject failure,” in John Bogle’s own blunt assessment. Critics called it
IFA's ongoing research series examines the banker's actively managed mutual funds.
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