The case for low-cost index-fund investing
@inproceedings{Harbron2016TheCF, title={The case for low-cost index-fund investing}, author={Garrett L. Harbron and Daren R. Roberts and Jeffery A. Johnson}, year={2016} }
Acknowledgements: The authors thank David J. Walker, of Vanguard’s Investment Strategy Group, for his valuable contributions to this paper. This paper is a revision of Vanguard research first published in 2004 as The Case for Indexing by Nelson Wicas and Christopher B. Philips, updated in succeeding years by Mr Philips and other co-authors. The current authors acknowledge and thank Mr Philips and Francis M. Kinniry Jr for their extensive contributions and original research on this topic.
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