Roger G. Ibbotson famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

On average, 90 percent of the variability of returns and 100 percent of the absolute level of return is explained by asset allocation.
-- Roger G. Ibbotson

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That what's most relevant to you is whether and how you're doing something different from what everybody else is doing.
-- Roger G. Ibbotson

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We can extrapolate from the study that for the long term individual investor who maintains a consistent asset allocation and leans toward index funds, asset allocation determines about 100% of performance.
-- Roger G. Ibbotson

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the apathy and inattention of the average citizen is beyond comprehension.
I was a fairly good amateur musician, and I was an average professional. But the one thing I saw was that the big band business was fading.
That's referee Mike Reed's 50th booking of the season, which works out at an average of six a game.
It is interesting to observe that in the year 1935 the average individual's incurious attitude towards the phenomenon of the State is precisely what his attitude was toward the phenomenon of the Church in the year, say, 1500. It does not appear to have occurred to the Church-citizen of that day, any more than it occurs to the State-citizen of the present, to ask what sort of institution it was that claimed his allegiance.
China is doing lots of things right. It's investing in education and R&D, it's opening up, it's more cosmopolitan than it's ever been. I think it's very likely that China will continue to explode economically and certainly become a superpower.
But when that information travels only to a privileged few, when it is used to profit at the expense of the investing public, when that information comes by way of favored access rather than by acumen, insight or diligence, we must ask, 'Whose interest is really being served?'.
A racing tipster who only reached Hitler's level of accuracy would not do well for his clients.
I know I'm capable of greatness, and I'm expecting to reach that level.
There's a certain level of pageantry with 'Idol,' and in order to work the show, you kind of have to feed into it.
What we seek, at the deepest level, is inwardly to resemble, rather than physically to possess, the objects and places that touch us through their beauty.

Roger G. Ibbotson famous quotes

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