La guía Boglehead de inversión

Financial markets are, in essence, closed systems in which what one investor gains, another loses. Sailing in these troubled waters following the advice of Wall Street is the perfect recipe to wreck and end up poorer than at first. But if you want expert guidance, solid advice, and a bit of cheeky humor, this is your book. More than twenty years ago, an informal group of investors started exchanging ideas on the web. They had in common rationality, their spirit of solidarity and respect for the legendary career of John C. Bogle, the founder of Vanguard. Today www.bogleheads.org receives more than a million visits a day and has become the best investment forum in cyberspace. This book, which exudes his wisdom, kindness and refined realism, is an insurmountable and counterintuitive guide. In its pages it recommends and explains how to draw up a personal financial plan and follow it to the letter. The key? Choose low-cost investment funds, perfectly indexed, as the center of your investment portfolio. It is a simple method, and in that simplicity lies precisely its beauty. Along the way you will find distractions that will incite you to deviate from the planned route. But this book warns you against them and prepares you to avoid them.