What is Index Investing?
Index investing is not as complicated as it sounds. An index is basically a group of stocks, bonds, or other securities designed to track a specific market. The S&P 500 is an example of a stock index. It contains 500 domestic stocks.
By constructing your investment portfolio with funds or ETFs that follow market indexes you enjoy many important advantages.
Here’s just a few to name:
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Lower investment costs compared to actively managed funds;
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Performance that routinely beats the vast majority of Wall Street’s fund managers;
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Complete avoidance of perverse activities like style drift, hyper-active trading, window dressing, and closet indexing;
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Greater tax efficiency
Financial legends and luminaries like Benjamin Graham, Paul A. Samuelson, John C. Bogle, Warren Buffett, and David F. Swensen have endorsed index investing. (See the Little Book of Common Sense Investing by J. Bogle)
About the Show
The Index Investing Show is a weekly radio program that covers the major stock, bond, and commodity indexes along with the financial products that track them. The program is informative, educational, and helps people to have the right investment philosophy. The San Diego-based show is a live national broadcast and began airing in 2005. To learn more about our
radio program's investment philosophy, click here.
About the Host
Ron DeLegge is the weekly voice of the Index Investing Show and he’s convinced that indexing offers common people the best opportunity to achieve uncommon profits. As a former investment advisor for 11 years, he’s personally helped people to reach their financial goals through index investing. Through the Index Investing Show’s independent network of pre-screened investment advisors, he continues to help investors.
Ron has been quoted by the Associated Press, Bloomberg, Business Week, Chicago Tribune, and the Wall Street Journal. He makes periodic guest appearances on CNBC and also serves as the Editor of ETFguide.com. Ron is originally from Chicago, IL and he now lives in Southern California with his lovely wife.
Our Program Schedule
The Show airs live every Saturday at the following times and locations: |
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Station |
Time |
Boston, MA |
AM-1060 |
4-5 PM (Eastern) |
Buena Vista, CO |
AM-1450 |
2-3 PM (Mountain) |
Chicago, IL |
AM-560 |
3-4 PM (Central) |
Colorado Springs, CO |
AM-1580 |
2-3 PM (Mountain) |
Denver, CO |
AM-1060 |
2-3 PM (Mountain) |
Phoenix, AZ |
AM-960 |
1-2 PM (Pacific) |
San Francisco, CA |
AM-1220 |
1-2 PM (Pacific) |
San Diego, CA |
AM-1170 |
1-2 PM (Pacific) |
Vail, CO |
AM-610 |
2-3 PM (Mountain) |
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The Index Investing Show is expanding to a city near you. Make our program part of your weekly routine. |
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Call the show live at 888-344-1170.
Guest List
Here’s a partial list of All-Star guests that have appeared on the Index Investing Show:
Burton Malkiel, Author and Professor at Princeton University
Hersh Shefrin, Author and Professor at Santa Clara University
Darwin Abrahamson, CEO of InvestnRetire.com
Dan Dolan, Director of Wealth Management Strategies @ Select Sector SPDRs
Jason Zweig, Author of Your Money and Your Brain
John C. Bogle, Founder of the Vanguard Group
Jeremy Siegel, Author and Professor at the Wharton School of University of Pennsylvania
John Prestbo, Executive Director of Dow Jones Indexes
Mercer Bullard, President of Fund Democracy
Louis Lowenstein, Author and Professor Emeritus of Finance & Law @ Columbia University
Peter Bernstein, Author of Capital Ideas Evolving
Richard Ferri, President of Portfolio Solutions and Author of “All about Index Funds”
Terrance O’Dean, Professor at University of California at Berkeley
Ted Benna, “Father of the 401(k) Plan”
William Bernstein, Author of The Four Pillars of Investing: Lessons for Building a Winning Portfolio
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