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Vanguard diehard hbarnard made this post about the U.S. markets, Is it “Half full or half empty?” Taylor’s reply was I think a classic article by Jason Zweig, “I don’t know, I don’t care“: Will value stocks do better than growth stocks? I don’t know, and I don’t care — my index fund owns both. [...]

I think by now many people are probably already aware that the Dow Jones Industrials Average (DJIA) Index closed on a new all-time high of 11,727.34 on Oct 3, 2006. The previous highest close was 11,722.98, reached on Jan 14, 2000. While the new high is only some 0.0372% higher than the number set six [...]

The following are excerpts from the article Bogle And Malkiel Fight Back: When WisdomTree Investments launched its first 20 dividend-weighted exchange-traded funds (ETFs) in June, CEO Jonathan Steinberg didn’t hold back. Calling market-cap weighted indexes “flawed,” Steinberg said that his funds “had the potential to change the way investors think about indexing and investing.” Weighting [...]