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Index funds have regularly produced rates of return exceeding those of active managers by close to 2 percentage points. Active management as a whole cannot achieve gross returns exceeding the market as a while and therefore they must, on average, underperform the indexes by the amount of these expense and transaction costs disadvantages.

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Index funds do not trade from security to security and, thus, they tend to avoid capital gains taxes.

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Burton Malkiel

Burton Malkiel

Born: August 28, 1932 (age 92)
Bio: Burton Gordon Malkiel is an American economist and writer, most famous for his classic finance book A Random Walk Down Wall Street.
Known for:
  1. The Elements of Investing (2009)

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