Here is Part VII of the Quotable Guide to Passive Investing. Part I is here. To scroll through Parts II to VI, click on links at the bottom of each page.

Here is Part VI of the Quotable Guide to Passive Investing. Part I is here. To scroll through Parts II to V, click on links at the bottom of each page.

Here is Part V of the Quotable Guide to Passive Investing. Part I is here. To access follow-on parts, click on links at the bottom of the each page.

Here is Part IV of the Quotable Guide to Passive Investing. Part I is here. Then follow the links at the bottom of the page to access the rest of the parts.

Taylor Larimore offers a guide on the Investment Gems webpage to the literature on passive index investing. Here is Part III of the Quotable Guide to Passive Investing, a condensation of his work. Part I can be found here and Part II here.

Many books on passive index investing have now been published and Taylor Larimore offers an excellent guide on his Investment Gems webpage. Here is Part II of the Quotable Guide to Passive Investing. Part I can be found here.

Many books on passive index investing have been published in recent years. Taylor Larimore offers an excellent bibliography on his Investment Gems webpage: not only does he provide a comprehensive list of books, but also a collection of key excerpts from each book.

William Bernstein, author of  The Four Pillars of Investing, has a new book out. It’s called The Investor's Manifesto: Preparing for Prosperity, Armageddon, and Everything in Between. What’s it like? Here is a summary and some highlights (in “Coles Notes” fashion):

In Thomas Hardy's masterpiece of a novel written in the 1880s,  The Life and Death of the Mayor of Casterbridge, the destinies of the two main characters, the tragic Michael Henchard and the triumphant Donald Farfrae, essentially rested on the outcome of their trading in commodities.

Here is the second part of the post on the ETF vs. mutual fund debate ….