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Mark Hebner explains the 12-Steps.

Mark Hebner is the President of Index Funds Advisors, Inc., author of the www.ifa.com web site, editor and owner of www.indexfunds.com, and author of the book, Index Funds: The 12-Step Program, Active Investors Anonymous. He has attended eighteen conferences on index funds investing and is considered the leading internet provider of information on index funds.

He is an Investment Advisor Representative and has a Masters in Business Administration from the University of California at Irvine.

 

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Books

These books were used in the development of the investment strategies of Index Funds Advisors. The first book summarizes what is found in most of the books below it. The lack of reading these books is at the heart of the failure of investors. Learn and enjoy!
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Category One: Understanding the Secret World of Wall Street
This first category is about the misaligned incentives and lack of investment theory education of stock brokers.

 
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Category Two: Nobel Laureates and Historical Perspective
These books were used in the development of the investment strategies of Index Funds Advisors. In most cases the book images are links to amazon.com, so that you may purchase them. Learn and enjoy!

 
» Category Three: Nuts and Bolts of Index Funds Investing
» Category Four: Interviews and Writings of the Experts
 

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Articles

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News articles about IFA and DFA:

- Really Smart Money
- Is the Market Rational?
- Investors Can't Beat Market, Scholar Says
- Brain Trust
- Bankrate.com
- The Best Fund Family..TheStreet.com
- CBS MarketWatch
- Motley Fool
- MSN Money on DFA
- London's Financial Times
- MSN Money on IFs
- BusinessWeek on IFs
- DFA: Leader of the Pack
- DFA: World-Class 401k
- WSJ, Only Fools...
- DFA Dalbar Ranking
- Probability of Success
- Explaining Stock Returns
- Magellan Rip-Off
- Capitalism and Index Funds

 
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Read about the Number 1 rated mutual fund company, DFA

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Quotes

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"The investor’s chief problem - and even his worst enemy - is likely to be himself."
Graham, Benjamin(1894-1976) Legendary American investor, scholar, teacher and co-author of the 1934 classic, Security Analysis

 
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"Most investors are pretty smart. Yet most investors also remain heavily invested in actively managed stock funds. This is puzzling. The temptation, of course, is to dismiss these folks as ignorant fools. But I suspect these folks know the odds are stacked against them, and yet they are more than happy to take their chances."
Clements, Jonathan, Journalist

 
 

 

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Article Database

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Tversky, Amos
The Psychology of Decision Making

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Lewellen, W. G., R. C. Lease and G. G. Schlarbaum
Investment performance and investor behavior.

 

 

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Articles Archive

626 short articles in the archives on index investing, going back to 1997. Many authors have contributed useful insights into why an index portfolio matched to your risk capacity is the optimal choice for all investors.

 

 

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