Exchange Traded Funds Quotes

Over the years, the technology of trade has changed in response to advances in the ability to communicate. From its origins on the streets of Chicago, the Board of Trade moved to a building housing 'trading pits' for the open-outcry exchange by brokers representing buyers and sellers.

Even from the very beginning, I didn't put any money in the stock market.

The investing world is a little bit more multidimensional than poker.

In college, I was told the market can't be beat.

If the investor doesn't have enough time and skill to investigate individual stocks or enough money to diversify a portfolio, the right thing to do is to invest in exchange-traded funds that give you exposure to asset classes. It does make sense for the individual investor to think in terms of holding individual asset classes.

I went into investments out of interest and thought I knew a little. The longer I've been involved, the less I realise I'd known.

I was involved with Wells Fargo Bank as a consultant in the late 1960s and early 1970s, when I suggested to them that they develop a product that has become known as index funds.

My research interests since then have shifted strongly towards the economic and regulatory problems of the financial services industry, and especially of the securities and options exchanges.

I'd love to see the secondary markets become more widespread in terms of their adoption.

All my money is in a savings account. My dad has explained the stock market to me maybe 75 times. I still don't understand it.