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The Bogleheads' Guide to Investing

By: Taylor Larimore, Mel Lindauer, Michael LeBoeuf, John C. Bogle - foreword
Narrated by: Barry Abrams
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Summary

The Bogleheads' Guide to Investing is a DIY handbook that espouses the sage investment wisdom of John C. Bogle. This witty and wonderful book offers contrarian advice that provides the first step on the road to investment success, illustrating how relying on typical "common sense" promoted by Wall Street is destined to leave you poorer. This updated edition includes new information on backdoor Roth IRAs and ETFs as mainstream buy-and-hold investments, estate taxes and gifting, plus changes to the laws regarding Traditional and Roth IRAs, and 401k and 403b retirement plans. With warnings and principles both precisely accurate and grandly counterintuitive, the Boglehead authors show how beating the market is a zero-sum game.  

Investing can be simple, but it's certainly not simplistic. Over the course of 20 years, the followers of John C. Bogle have evolved from a loose association of investors to a major force with the largest and most active non-commercial financial forum on the Internet. The Bogleheads' Guide to Investing brings that communication to you with comprehensive guidance to the investment prowess on display at Bogleheads.org. You'll learn how to craft your own investment strategy using the Bogle-proven methods that have worked for thousands of investors.

©2014 Taylor Larimore, Mel Lindauer, and Michael LeBoeuf (P)2019 Gildan Media

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The message is clear and remains valid today.

Bear in mind that this was written early in the 2000's so discussions on market trends etc do not take into account the 2008 crash and the market volatility of the late 2010's, the rock bottom + negative interest rates and the Covid crash.
Thus the discussions over economic indicators are now substantially out of date. This is particularly important in the Bond & Fixed income chapters. The reader needs to update the views on Bonds. They are still important in diversification and in Mean-Variace portfolio allocation for risk smoothing but not to the same degree as back in 2005.
As regards Income, Bonds are no longer a steady income generating asset. Allocation strategy now needs to look at alternatives to bonds if the investor requires an income generating portfolio. The bottom line is that passive investors now need to accept an increase in risk or lower income expectations.
The reader needs to make suitable adjustments therefore in asset allocation. The blended funds and Retirement funds therefore represent an edge over single bond index fund matching for Fixed income allocation. Without a sturdy knowledge of the bond markets, economic trends, interest yield curves and the impact of inflation, trying to guess the right mix and allocation of bond index funds in your portfolio can lead to expensive mistakes. The blended funds leaves that to the provider's sophisticated quantitative algorithms at a lower fee than active Bond funds.

Nevertheless, the overall message remains valid.
Passive investing in low cost index funds or Blended diversified funds of index funds including Equity & Bonds remains the best long term investment strategy for the average retail investor.
Active funds which had a good performance run in the past still represent expensive speculation. Some will make gains in excess of the index funds (the market) but more will lose by a greater drawdown than the market. Therefore basic statistics shows that the odds are always against the investor trying to beat the market.
Long term consistent sucess in individual equity investments can only come from a thorough a detailed Value investment strategy. This requires a constant amount of detailed analysis of stocks and the market. An approach that requires a basic understanding of security analysis & valuations and risk assessment. The average retail investor has neither the time, expertise or appetite for such analysis and therefore their activity becomes nothing more than a speculative gamble.
The house always wins.

Sage advise therefore is to just invest in the market.
This still requires every investor to have long term confidence in the stock market and to accept some degree of volatility on the journey but historical evidence since the inception of stocks and financial Securties & sophisticated exchange markets back in the late 18thCentuary displays a continuous growth in the market in parallel with global economic growth.
For this trend to fail in the future one would have to assume that either capitalism is dead or the world is coming to an abrupt end.

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Very nice audiobook with great advices for all the investors.
Though some topics are only US focused

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Amazing read!!!! Knowledge is power✊🏿✊🏿✊🏿✊🏿🎉✊

I'd soooooooooo much haha from this one single but powerful book. Its definitely a must read and have.📚

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