Larry E. Swedroehas long maintained that investors and fund managers have had no sustainable success when chasing hot individual stocks. They say that it is much wiser to buy baskets of stocks from prominent indexes - always selected from a variety of major well-run companies. Inevitable market rises and dips, followed by further market rises, plus the miracle of compounding, will build, over a minimum of two decades, real wealth.
This book brings together fourteen truths for index investing and discusses why careful and patient investing will capture many of today's big-company stock valuations that will be seen over time to have been tremendous buys.
LARRY E. SWEDROE graduated from New York University with an MBA in finance. The author of previous books, including What Wall Street Doesn't Want You to Know,lives in St. Louis, Missouri.