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What counts is what you do with your money, not where it came from.

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Junk bonds prove there's nothing magical in a Aaa bond rating.

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I should mention that I am a member of the board of directors of Dimensional Fund Advisors.

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Of course. I favor passive investing for most investors, because markets are amazingly successful devices for incorporating information into stock prices.

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So everybody has some information. The function of the markets is to aggregate that information, evaluate it, and get it incorporated into prices.

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Most people might just as well buy a share of the whole market, which pools all the information, than delude themselves into thinking they know something the market doesn't.

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To beat the market you'll have to invest serious bucks to dig up information no one else has yet.

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You only need to make one big score in finance to be a hero forever.

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But in practice, if often comes down to not suffering a loss as big as the huge gain you made a while ago.

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I can't speak for them, of course, but I believe that most economists would accept the view that, while you sometimes can make a score by sheer luck, you can't do it constantly, unless you're willing to put the resources in.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Economist

Born: May 16th, 1923

Died: June 3rd, 2000

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