John Bogle on investing: the first 50 years

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2015 INTRODUCTION TO THE CLASSIC EDITION OF JOHN BOGLE ON INVESTING: THE FIRST 50 YEARS IX FOREWORD: PAUL A. VOLCKER XXIX INTRODUCTION: WILLIAM T. ALLEN XXXI PREFACE XXXV SOME WORDS OF APPRECIATION XLIII Part I Investment Strategies For The Intelligent Investor 1 Investing in the New Millennium: The Bagel and the Doughnut 5 2 The Clash of the Cultures in Investing: Complexity vs. Simplicity 17 3 Equity Fund Selection: The Needle or the Haystack? 33 4 Risk and Risk Control in an Era of Confidence (or Is It Greed?) 47 5 Buy Stocks? No Way! 66 6 The Death Rattle of Indexing 82 7 25 Years of Indexing: When Active Managers Win, Who Loses? 98 8 Selecting Equity Mutual Funds 108 9 The Third Mutual Fund Industry 122 Part II Taking On The Mutual Fund Industry 10 Mutual Funds: The Paradox of Light and Darkness 141 11 Economics 101: For Mutual Fund Investors ... For Mutual Fund Managers 153 12 Honing the Competitive Edge in Mutual Funds 168 13 Creating Shareholder Value: BY Mutual Funds ... or FOR Mutual Fund Shareholders? 180 14 The Silence of the Funds: Mutual Fund Investment Policies and Corporate Governance 196 15 Losing Our Way: Where Are the Independent Directors? 208 Part III Economics And Idealism: The Vanguard Experiment 16 Vanguard Child of Fortune 221 17 The Winds of Change: The Vanguard Experiment in Internalized Management 231 18 Deliverance 246 19 The Lengthened Shadow, Economics, and Idealism 260 20 On the Right Side of History 270 Part IV Personal Perspectives 21 Changing the Mutual Fund Industry: The Hedgehog and the Fox 291 22 The Majesty of Simplicity 307 23 The Things by Which One Measures One s Life 312 24 Telltale Hearts 316 25 Press On Regardless 327 Part V The Princeton Thesis The Economic Role of the Investment Company 341 INDEX 451