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The Little Book of Common Sense Investing

By: John C. Bogle
Narrated by: Thom Pinto
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John C. Bogle's The Little Book of Index Investing is a power-packed explanation of why outperforming the market is an investor illusion. Instead, the founder of The Vanguard Group—the man who's been called "the conscience of the investment industry"*—recommends a simple, time-tested investment strategy that can deliver the greatest return to the greatest number of investors: indexing. Why? Investing is a zero-sum game where transaction costs, taxes, poor investment diversification, and poor market-timing (an affliction for most investors) hurts your portfolio more than it helps. Indexing eliminates that hurt. Bottom-line, if you can't be an index, why not invest in one? And you'll be all the happier and richer for it.
*Time Magazine

©2007 John C. Bogle (P)2006 Audio Renaissance, a division of Holtzbrinck Publishers LLC Economics Personal Finance Investing

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Critic reviews

"Bogle is rattling the status quo among the mutual-fund titans." ( Fortune)
"John C. Bogle...has the mind of an economist and the personality of a preacher." ( The Washington Post)
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The TLDR of this book is: "Buy index funds, because active management can't outperform the market, and charge large fees that mean they deliver below market-average returns to their investors".

This argument is supported by plenty of strong data, is hard to argue with, and is worth hearing for anyone looking to invest their savings. Unfortunately the one sentence premise is stretched out to over 5 hours, and the message simply doesn't need to be delivered over that much time. This is an article drawn out into a book.

Narrator is fine.

A strong argument, dragged out for too long.

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Novice investor here. I found the book very concise and informative at any point. Well explained and easy to understand.

Extremely happy with it

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Would advise watching a summary video on youtube for 5 minutes. His point is made in the first 15minutes and he really doesnt introduce any significant points or thinking to justify listening to through for another 5 hours.

Good concept, but far too much repition.

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It’s simply a 5 hour argument about why buying ETFs is s good idea. If you already know that, the book is of no use. Maybe it was more relevant when it was first published.

Depends on what you expect

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