. ..the best way to own common stocks is through index funds...
- Warren Buffett, Berkshire Hathaway Inc. 1996 Shareholder Letter

Additionally, those index funds that are very low-cost (such as Vanguard’s) are investor-friendly by definition and are the best selection for most of those who wish to own equities.
- see page 10 of Berkshire Hathaway Inc. 2003 Annual Report

Over the 35 years, American business has delivered terrific results. It should therefore have been easy for investors to earn juicy returns: All they had to do was piggyback Corporate America in a diversified, low-expense way. An index fund that they never touched would have done the job. Instead many investors have had experiences ranging from mediocre to disastrous. - page 5, 2004 Annual Report

"Most individual investors would be better off in an index mutual fund."
- Peter Lynch

 




 
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1. Ben Graham on Efficient Markets. (50 sec) Source: How the Really Smart Money Invests, 2. Professor Eugene Fama defines efficient markets. (56 sec) Source: Interview. 3. Rex Sinquefield, Co-Founder of DFA: All of us know more than any one of us. (55 sec) Source: Interview 4. Rex Sinquefield, Co-founder DFA, Can skill prevail in Efficient Markets? (46 sec) Source: Interview 5. Zvi Bodie: The Luck of the Toss. (59 sec) Source: The Trillion Dollar Bet, a Nova Special 6. Announcer: A devastating conclusion: the success of traders is due to shear luck rather than skill.  (57 sec)  Source: The Trillion Dollar Bet. 7. Merton Miller, Nobel Laureate, It's just a game of chance. (26 sec) Source: The Trillion Dollar Bet 8. Rex: Survivorship Bias of Active Manager's Returns. Part 1 (60 sec) Source: Interview 9. Rex: Survivorship Bias of Active Manager's Returns. Part 2. (28 sec) Source: Interview 10. Zvi Bodie: You don't hear about the losers. (43 sec) Source: The Trillion Dollar Bet 11. Rex Sinquefield and Mark Matson: Where do Returns Come From? (61 sec) Source: How the Really Smart Money Invests 12. Ken French on Worldwide and Time Tested Evidence of Priced Risk Factors. (60 sec) Source: Interview 13. Ken French on Value versus Growth. (30 sec) Source: Interview
14. Ken French on the Value Premium. (54 sec) Source: Interview 15. Paul Samuelson, Nobel Laureate, The History of Market Risk Management. (56 sec) Source: The Trillion Dollar Bet 16. Paul Samuelson, Nobel Laureate, The 1900 declaration of random stock market prices. (60 sec) Source: The Trillion Dollar Bet 17. Merton Miller, Nobel Laureate: Managing Risk with Probabilities. (20 sec) Source: The Trillion Dollar Bet 18. Rex Sinquefield, Co-Founder DFA:  The University of Chicago and DFA. ( 60 sec) Source: Interview) 19. Rex Sinquefield: The Birth of Index Funds. (60 sec) Source: Interview 20. Rex Sinquefield: The Birth of Index Funds: Part 2 (44 sec) Source: Interview 21. Mark Matson: Investors Chase Performance... to their detriment. (59 sec) Source: How the Really Smart Money Invests 22. Rex Sinquefield, Co-Founder DFA, The Age Old Myth and it's Victims. (57 sec) Source: Interview 23. Robert Stoval and John Stossel, But it is a different set of winners each year and lousy research. (45 sec)  Source: ABC News, 20/20 Nov 1992 24. Burton Malkiel and John Stossel, It's like giving up a belief in Santa Claus. (25 sec) Source: ABC News, 20/20 Nov 1992 24. Burton Malkiel and John Stossel,  Most of it is absolute nonsense. (58 sec) Source: ABC News, 20/20 Nov 1992 25. Dan Wheeler and Mark Matson: Step 12:Invest and Relax. (61 sec) Source: How the Really Smart Money Invests.

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The 12-Steps Part I, Part II
Mark Hebner is the President of Index Funds Advisors, Inc., author of the www.ifa.com web site, editor and owner of www.indexfunds.com , and author of the book, Index Funds: The 12-Step Program, Active Investors Anonymous.

 

He has attended eighteen conferences on index funds investing and is considered the leading internet provider of information on index funds. He is an Investment Advisor Representative and has a Masters in Business Administration from the University of California at Irvine.

 

 

 

 

Interview with Eugene Fama

Professor Fama is arguably the best-known financial economist in the world. He coined the phrase "The Efficient Market Theory." This interview is approximately 15 minutes long and includes 17 questions that Professor Fama provides his esteemed point of view. You will find him both engaging and humorous. You will hear what few people have heard from one of the world`s most informed professors of economics. See more of Eugene Fama's research from the Social Science Reseach Network. There has been about 9 million article downloads and Fama's research makes up #1 downloaded paper and three of the Top Ten. Conference Honoring Eugene Fama (May 15, 2004) Fama appears to be in line for a future Nobel Prize.

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Interview with Eugene Fama

Professor Fama is among the most prolific and cited thinkers in finance today. In this interview, he discusses the origins of his interest in economics, the origins of Dimensional, his thirty year career at The University of Chicago, and what has changed (and remained the same) in the economic world during that time.

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These books were used in the development of the investment strategies of Index Funds Advisors. The first book summarizes what is found in most of the books below it. The lack of reading these books is at the heart of the failure of investors. Learn and enjoy!
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Category One: Understanding the Secret World of Wall Street

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