Don't count on it Reflections on investment illusions, capitalism, "mutual" funds, indexing, entrepreneurship, idealism, and heroes
Book - 2011
"Insights into investing and leadership from the founder of The Vanguard Group. Throughout his legendary career, John Bogle, founder of the Vanguard mutual fund group and creator of the first index mutual fund, has helped investors build wealth the right way, while, at the same time, leading a tireless campaign to restore common sense to the investment world. A collection of essays based on speeches delivered to professional groups and college students in recent years, in Don't Count on It is organized around eight themes. Illusion versus reality in investing. Indexing to market returns. Failures of capitalism. The flawed structure of the mutual fund industry. The spirit of entrepreneurship. What is enough in business, and in life.... Advice to America's future leaders. The unforgettable characters who have shaped his career. Widely acclaimed for his role as the conscience of the mutual fund industry and a relentless advocate for individual investors, in Don't Count on It, Bogle continues to inspire, while pushing the mutual fund industry to measure up to their promise"--Provided by publisher.
- Subjects
- Published
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Hoboken, NJ :
Wiley
c2011.
- Language
- English
- Main Author
- Physical Description
- xxxii, 603 p. : ill. ; 24 cm
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN
- 9780470643969
- Foreword
- Introduction
- A Note to the Reader
- Part 1. Investment Illusions
- Chapter 1. Don't Count on It! The Perils of Numeracy
- Chapter 2. The Relentless Rules of Humble Arithmetic
- Chapter 3. The Telltale Chart
- Chapter 4. A Question So Important That It Should Be Hard to Think about Anything Else
- Chapter 5. The Uncanny Ability to Recognize the Obvious
- Part 2. The Failure of Capitalism
- Chapter 6. What Went Wrong in Corporate America?
- Chapter 7. Fixing a Broken Financial System
- Chapter 8. Vanishing Treasures: Business Values and Investment Values
- Chapter 9. A Crisis of Ethic Proportions
- Chapter 10. Black Monday and Black Swans
- Chapter 11. The Go-Go Years
- Part 3. What's Wrong with "Mutual" Funds
- Chapter 12. Re-Mutualizing the Mutual Fund Industry: The Alpha and the Omega
- Chapter 13. A New Order of Things: Bringing Mutuality to the "Mutual" Fund
- Chapter 14. The Fiduciary Principle: No Man Can Serve Two Masters
- Chapter 15. Mutual Funds at the Millennium: Fund Directors and Fund Myths
- Chapter 16. "High Standards of Commercial Honor ... Just and Equitable Principles of Trade ... Fair Dealing with Investors"
- Part 4. What's Right with Indexing
- Chapter 17. Success in Investment Management: What Can We Learn from Indexing?
- Chapter 18. As the Index Fund Moves from Heresy to Dogma, What More Do We Need to Know?
- Chapter 19. "The Chief Cornerstone"
- Chapter 20. Convergence! The Great Paradox: Just as Active Fund Management Becomes More and More Like passive Indexing, So Passive Indexing Becomes More and More Like Active Fund Management
- Part 5. Entrepreneurship and Innovation
- Chapter 21. Capitalism, Entrepreneurship, and Investing: The 18th Century versus the 21st Century
- Chapter 22. Seventeen Rules of Entrepreneurship
- Chapter 23. "Vanguard: Saga of Heroes"
- Chapter 24. When Does Innovation Go Too Far?
- Part 6. Idealism and the New Generation
- Chapter 25. Business as a Calling
- Chapter 26. The Right Kind of Success
- Chapter 27. "This Above All: To Thine Own Self Be True"
- Chapter 28. "Enough"
- Chapter 29. If You Can Trust Yourself ...
- Chapter 30. The Fifth "Never"
- Chapter 31. "When a Man Comes to Himself"
- Part 7. Heroes and Mentors
- Chapter 32. Walter L. Morgan
- Chapter 33. Paul A. Samuelson
- Chapter 34. Peter L. Bernstein
- Chapter 35. Bernard Lown, MD
- Index