Mark Hulbert famous quotes

It is very hard, if not impossible," he wrote in his study, "to justify active management for most individual, taxable investors, if their goal is to grow wealth." And he said that those who still insist on an actively managed fund are almost certainly "deluding themselves.
-- Mark Hulbert

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Assuming that the future is like the past, you can outperform 80 percent of your fellow investors over the next several decades by investing in an index fund-and doing nothing else. But acquire the discipline to do something even better: become a long-term index fund investor.
-- Mark Hulbert

#Past #Discipline #Long

Index funds are the only rational alternative for almost all mutual fund investors.
-- Mark Hulbert

#Alternatives #Investing #Mutual Fund

These results add up to perhaps the most important investment lesson of all that can be drawn from this week's market anniversaries: Predicting turns in the market is incredibly difficult to do consistently well. That means that, if your investment strategy going forward is dependent on your anticipating major market turning points, your chances of success are extremely low.
-- Mark Hulbert

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I've got the 30 drive right now. You turn 30, I don't know, life is exciting again; thirties is when you've got it all figured out. You start reaching some of your goals, and achieving some great things.

Getting adjusted regularly is part of my goal to win in life and on the field.

I don't care who scores the goals, I'm going to leave my human beingness on the field!

No I or individual is better than the team. I've scored no goals just on my own. Every goal I've ever scored has been because of someone else on my team, their excellence, their bravery. And I'm kind of the end product of a collection of a really good vibe, and feeling, and creativity on the field.

There is a realm of time where the goal is not to have but to be, not to own but to give, not to control but to share, not to subdue but to be in accord. Life goes wrong when the control of space, the acquisition of things of space, becomes our sole concern.

Re-investing in one's own little moments of insight is very important

Investing in early childhood nutrition is a surefire strategy. The returns are incredibly high.

The best approach here if at all possible is to use supervisory and regulatory methods to restrain undue risk-taking and to make sure the system is resilient in case an asset price bubble bursts in the future.

Buy not on optimism, but on arithmetic.

Diversity is essential to happiness and in Utopia there is hardly any. This is a defect in all planned social systems.