Bogle on Mutual Funds
New Perspectives For The Intelligent Investor

While reading this book before lockdowns, the guy next to me at Starbucks told me not to overthink it. I overthink things. Though I read this thoroughly and underlined things. Though I am rereading things and using a highlighter to reevaluate and reinterpret passages, I know I do not get the big pictu......more

The evangelist for indexing. One should remember, however, that had one put all their money in the Vanguard S&P 500 fund in July 1999, he or she would have lost over one percent per year annualized over the next ten years, including the reinvestment of dividends and not counting expenses and taxes.......more

Bogle is the founder of the Vanguard family of mutual funds. This book is for those who want to invest intelligently in mutual funds in the same way that Benjamin Graham advised individual investors of stocks and bonds in THE INTELLIGENT INVESTOR. However, where Graham's book was written for finance......more

As a total beginner to this study, some of it was over my head, but I was able to understand more of it than I anticipated. The unfortunate thing is the age of the book, the data stops at the period ending December 31, 1992. One of the things I was able to notice is that the maximum contributions fo......more

If you've read any of Bogle's other, shorter books on mutual funds, and you have an interest in the markets and some history investing, you probably already know what this book is about. I'd say this is about the same as Bogle's other books, but more so. More pages, more details, and more, albeit si......more