A ground-breaking eight-part, 54 minute film featuring some of the world's top economists and academics including John Bogle, Charles Ellis and William Sharpe. Above all, it demonstrates why passive is the rational, mathematically proven route to investing success.
The growing popularity in the UK of passive investing
Part 7: The Tide Is Turning
A 10-part documentary on the failings of the fund management industry
In the final video in this series, we explore how the investment industry needs to change if it’s to serve investors better, and make a more valuable contribution to the economy and to society.
How to Win the Loser's Game, Part 10
Investing passively will ensure that, after costs, you outperform the average active investor. That’s simple arithmetic. But there is a proviso. You must have the discipline to stay the course.
How to Win the Loser's Game, Part 9
The academic evidence points overwhelmingly to indexing being the best way for the vast majority of people to invest. The next key question is what type - or types - of index funds should we invest in?
How to Win the Loser's Game, Part 7
All the evidence points to the humble index fund being the most appropriate investment vehicle. And there are few advocates of indexing as staunch as Warren Buffett - the most famous active stock picker of all.
How to Win the Loser's Game, Part 6
In search of a better way to invest, we travel to Paris and Chicago to examine the work of Professor Eugene Fama and French mathematician Louis Bachelier.
How to Win the Loser's Game, Part 4
Part 3 of this documentary on evidence-based investing looks at the dismal performance record of actively managed funds.
How to Win the Loser's Game, Part 3
Global finance, investment and academic experts share their wisdom on some of the big investing questions.
John Bogle on words of wisdom he received early on in his career
All you need to know about investing in three words
Gus Sauter on the growth of passive investing
The increasing popularity of passive investing
Bill McNabb on the growth potential for passive investing in the UK.
Will passive investing become more popular in the UK?
How overperforming can quickly turn to underperforming when costs are taken into account
Why costs matter
Warren Buffett is a highly successful stock picker, so why aren't there lots more like him?
Why aren't there more investors like Warren Buffett?
Why paying your fund manager more means you'll make less.
Why you don't get what you pay for
A series of regular and topical video blogs in which industry commentators, experts, academics and investors are brought together to examine the finer points of investing.
An interview with Nick Blake, Vanguard's European head of retail
Do people still need a financial adviser?
Interview with Vanguard's Peter Westaway, chief European economist
First the rally, then the correction.... where are the markets heading now?
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