Here is a very nice summary, by @RobinJPowell, of the 20th anniversary and 10th edition of my book Index Funds: The 12-Step Recovery Program for Active Investors. It is the treatment of choice for active investors.
It's the year 1200. You're a merchant in Pisa — one of the busiest ports in the Mediterranean. You need to split a shipment of pepper between three buyers, convert Florentine coins to Genoese pounds, and calculate your profit before the tide turns.
Your tools? Roman numerals.
Try multiplying XLVII by CCIX.
Before Fibonacci, Europe was stuck. Roman numerals worked fine for carving dates into marble. But for commerce — for the messy, high-stakes arithmetic of medieval trade — they were nearly useless. There was no zero. No place value. Multiplying large numbers required a physical abacus and years of training.
The Papers that Changed Investing: Value vs Growth: The International Evidence
It's 1998. The Clinton impeachment proceedings grip Washington, the European Central Bank is established and eleven nations are selected to adopt the Euro as their single currency, and two Stanford PhD students launch a search engine called Google.
Meanwhile on Wall Street, the dot-com frenzy is building. Tech stocks with no earnings are minting millionaires. Growth is everything. Old-economy value stocks — the cheap, beaten-down companies — are being left behind.
But two economists have just published evidence that those unloved stocks had been quietly outperforming in markets right across the globe.
Their paper: "Value Versus Growth: The International Evidence." Its authors: Eugene Fama and Kenneth French.
Welcome to The Papers That Changed Investing. https://t.co/AZHlNstlUX
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@GhostNg42677@Math_files How so? It is the reason investors should not be active investors. If someone thinks random variables provide an investment strategy, they must be new. Because short term chaos leads to long term order, investors should diversify over assets and time.
@Math_files See the creation of a normal distribution on a free Galton Board app that includes gyrometer features. Search Index Fund Advisors in Apple and Google app stores.
@Math_files I am working on a series of 18 coins based on the Pioneers of Probability. This is an early draft that included stock market references, which we have now taken out. What do you think of this idea?
When your 401(k) drops, every instinct says something's broken. But what if volatility isn't the only risk investors should worry about?
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