index funds

“Jim Cramer's last book, the first, this is a change in religion for him. The first thing he says is the first money you accumulate in the market should be in an index fund.”

“And then, of course, I would say, and probably most of us should implement using index funds.”

“Well, I don't believe that because there's been a lot of flows in the past that all these stocks are overvalued. They're structurally overvalued and people are gonna lose money because they're buying at a high. I don't believe in that general narrative, to be …”

“And by the way, global diversification through index funds is a fake diversification. Index funds and ETFs are often calculated on a cap-weighted basis, which is a fundamentally flawed way to calculate indices.”

“Index funds by definition are price takers. And what we don't fully know is what happens if We ever have a bear market and index funds have to sell.”

“The way it started is an index fund. It's a basket of the top 15 crypto assets, weighted by their market cap, and rebalanced every two weeks with a flat fee, and we don't charge a carry.”

“If you would like to be sure that you're a top quartile manager chooser, all you have to do is choose index funds, and the chances are you'll be the top half of the top quartile. We're sure to be in the top quartile. Long run.”

“What do you do with your own investing? Oh, I've got two kinds of investment. One is index funds, which I'm so happy with, just really comfortable with. And the second is an index fund equivalent in many ways, Berkshire Hathaway.”

“First, if you have 30% of the value of the market indexed, That's not 30% of the trading activity. It's a much smaller fraction.”

“I think that you should divide the investing universe into like sensible things and ridiculous things. And like, you can do ridiculous things and like ridiculous things, like most things, sensible things, like index funds, right? You want to do like hedge fund…”

“In aggregate of all the people going through the effort, is it worth it? No. Because we know that after fees, in aggregate, it's gonna be a negative return relative to the index, if you will.”

“I think that the US market for index funds is actually quite different from most other markets around the world in that, say the S&P 500 is very diverse with a lot of global leading companies. If you were to look in, say, emerging markets, there are a lot of c…”

“My hunch is that there's still a very large universe of dollars that should be a natural audience for index funds in the US, but are still in some more active strategy, mostly Owing to that history and tradition, and less the conscious decision that a low cost…”

“I have always thought that index funds are a terrific tool for most investors. And I say most because most investors do not know why they might be beating the market. And you have this wonderful opportunity to just join the market. And pay next to nothing for …”

“What I do is I buy index funds and then forget about them.”

“If the committee is going to hire and fire our active managers, if there's not going to be patience and the understanding of alpha cyclicality, they're better off in an index fund.”

“There hasn't been as much demand for people that want to buy index funds in crypto. People want to pick tokens and catch the next a hundred X.”

“Stocks kicked out of an index, in the short run, it underperforms. There's a lot of people that have to sell it, nobody that has to buy it. But I would argue that over a longer period of time, it's those stocks that don't make it into the index that are actual…”

“And I also know that if I can be an index fund investor for 50 years, I will probably end up in the top two percent of all investors who are doing this, particularly after fees, after taxes, transaction costs, top two percent.”

“I dollar cost average index funds.”

“At times we will do small deviations from the index where we see that we can recover value for our shareholders. Maybe there's a corporate action. Maybe you could take cash or shares. We're going to take the one that has the greater value. Maybe the index trea…”

“The minute a company comes public, it belongs in an index fund. We've had that belief for a long time. You might need a few days for it to get trading and figure out price discovery. Our best indexes add those securities in day three or day five.”