Earn More, Sleep Better : The Index Fund Solution: A Step-by-Step Investment Guide

by Richard E. Evans; Burton G. Malkiel

• ISBN13: 9780684852508
• ISBN10: 0684852500
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1999-02-16
• Publisher: Simon & Schuster

Summary

This is likely to be the most important book you will ever read about investing.

Author Biography

Richard E. Evans was a senior vice president at three of the world's largest advertising agencies and a managing director for Ogilvy & Mather in Europe. He has marketed a wide variety of financial products and services for more than twenty years. He currently heads his own consulting firm in Hastings-on-Hudson, New York, where he lives.

Table of Contents

Introduction	13	(18)
PART I: INDEX FUNDS VERSUS NON-INDEX FUNDS	31	(126)
1. An Unlikely Beginning	31	(5)
2. The Emperor Has No Clothes	36	(20)
3. Smoke, Mirrors, and Crystal Balls	56	(19)
4. What's Performance?	75	(16)
5. Fund Returns: Index Versus Non-Index	91	(14)
6. Does the Past Predict?	105	(10)
7. Why Can't Non-Index Funds Do Better?	115	(21)
8. A Noble Invention	136	(21)
PART 2: THE FIVE GIANT STEPS TO WEALTH	157	(108)
9. Giant Steps 1 and 2: Planning	157	(18)
10. Investing for Retirement	175	(16)
11. Giant Step 3: Build Your Portfolio	191	(19)
12. Giant Step 4: Cut Taxes	210	(21)
13. Giant Step 5: Don't Tinker, Don't Wait	231	(12)
14. An Update on Index Funds, with Model Index Portfolios	243	(22)
Index	265