Table of Contents
Cover
Title Page
Copyright
Dedication
Notes
Foreword
Note on the Text
Introduction
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The Changing Game
Dynamics of Innovation
Early “Performance Investing”
Index Funds' Growth
Accumulating Evidence
Changing Markets
Behavioral Economics
Fees Are Not Low
Notes
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The Loser's Game
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The Winners' Game
Three Errors
Conclusion: Our Future Promise
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The Winner's Game II
Losers' Game vs. Winners' Game
The Winning Triangle
Levels of the Game
Levels Are Separable
Becoming Mr. Market
Three Realities
Know Thyself
Everyone Can Win
Loser's Game Getting Worse
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The Rise and Fall of Performance Investing
A Brief History of Performance Investing
A Clear Alternative
Understanding the Social Acceptance of Innovation
Summing Up
Conclusion: Looking Forward
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Seven Rules for More Innovative Portfolio Management in an Age of Discontinuity
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Will Success Spoil Performance Investing?
The Successful Performance Investor
Giant Fund Manager Disadvantaged
Liquidity Loses Usefulness
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To Get Performance, You Have to Be Organized for It
How the “New” Managers Operate
Committees Can't Control
Why Individuals Outperform Committees
How “New” Management Gets Information
Bypassing the Staff Analysts
The Open-Minded Manager
Market Action Is an Indicator, Too
Performance Pays the Performers
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Investing Success in Two Easy Lessons
Note
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The End of Active Investing?
Actively Deficient
Standing Out?
The Good Old Days
Poor Value
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In Defense of Active Investing
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Murder on the Orient Express: The Mystery of Underperformance
The Evidence
The Suspects
Conclusion
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Best Practice Investment Committees
Committee Structure
Committee Mission
Investment Objectives
Self-Evaluation: Key Questions
Spending Rule
The Endowment Model
Notes
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Levels of the Game
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An Invitation to Winning
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Small Slam!
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A Lesson from Seaside Cemetery
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Tommy Armour on Investing
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Ted Williams' Great Lessons for Investors
Know Thyself
Do More of What You're Good At
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Symptoms and Signs
Searches for Understanding
Good Investment Performance
Investment Management
What Signs Mean
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Lessons from the Warwick and Château Chambord
A Brief History
Current Reality
Down Side Up
Notes
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Investment Management Fees Are Higher Than We Think
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Computer People May Be Planning a Revolution
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Characteristics of Successful Investment Firms
Professional Business Goals Conflict
The Importance of Strategic Considerations
Identifying the Big Decisions
Our People and Our Communications
Getting Bigger vs. Getting Better
Tenure, Turnover, and Structure
Compensation Now and Later
The Power of Good Ideas and Good Clients
Appraising “Success”
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A New Paradigm of Investment Management
The Past
The Future
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Lessons on Grand Strategy
Notes
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Pension Funds Need MORE Management MANAGEMENT
The Challenge of Modern Capital Theory
Conclusion
Note
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The Significance of 65
Bismarck's Germany: A Leader in Nineteenth-Century Tech
Living Longer Requires a Change in Thinking
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Where Were We?
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Hard Choices: Where Are We Now?
The Problem
Conclusion
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Bonds for Long-Term Investors?
Note
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What Role Should Bonds Play?
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Too Much Liquidity Will Cost You
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Letter to My Grandkids: 12 Essential Investing Guidelines
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Miss Sally's Attic
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Ben Graham: Ideas as Mementos
The Campaign for Professionalism
Organized Knowledge
Intrinsic Value
The Psychology of the Stock Market
On Price-Earnings Ratios
Judgment and Efficient Markets
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The Corporate Tax Cut
Many Will Benefit Less
Others Will Benefit More
Effect of Payments Acceleration
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Repurchase Stock to Revitalize Equity
Bolder Role Needed
Present Practice
Major Objections
Possible Alternatives
Deriving the Standard
Finding the Optimum
Role of Repurchasing
Market Reaction
Conclusion
Notes
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Anti-Trust, Bank Mergers, and the PNB Decision
Legislative History
Special Experience of the Justice Department
Notes
Index
End User License Agreement
List of Tables
Chapter 1
Table 1.1 Rise in Shares Traded, 1973–2011
Table 1.2 Percentage of Funds Underperforming Benchmarks, Adjusted for Surv...
Table 1.3 Fees for Mutual Funds in US in Basis Points, 2011
Chapter 10
Table 10.1 Percentage of International Funds That Lag Behind Benchmarks
Chapter 27
Table 27.1 Corporations Delegate Broad Policy Discretion to Investment Mana...
Table 27.2 How Policies Specified by Executives Are Changing
Chapter 31
Table 31.1 Ten-Year Cash Income Per $1,000 Investment
Table 31.2 Capital Appreciation of Moody's Utilities
Chapter 38
Table 38.1 The Benefits of Repurchase
Table 38.2 Companies with Substantial Holdings of Short-Term Securities
Table 38.3 Financial Effects of Buying Back Stock in a Hypothetical Case
Table 38.4 Stockholder Standards for Various Growth Rates
Table 38.5 Variations in Debt-Equity Ratios in Various Industries
List of Illustrations
Chapter 1
Figure 1.1 Incremental and Cumulative Acceptance
Figure 1.2 Fund Leadership Is Quick to Change: Performance Ranking as of Dec...
Figure 1.3 Estimated Hedge Funds' Assets and Number of Funds, 2000–2012...
Figure 1.4 Total Net Assets and Number of ETFs, 2000–2011.
Figure 1.5 CFA Charters Awarded by Decade
Chapter 5
Figure 5.1 After-Fee Outperformance Expectations for Active Investment Manag...
Figure 5.2 Who Buys In When
Figure 5.3 Total US Index Mutual Funds Assets, January 1985–September 2013...
Figure 5.4 Total US Industry ETF Assets, January 1993–September 2013
Chapter 12
Figure 12.1 Excess Returns for Fired and Hired Investment Managers Notes: Al...
Chapter 25
Figure 25.1 The New Paradigm
Chapter 33
Figure 33.1 Impact of Being Out of the Market
Guide
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