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The Bogleheads' Guide to the Three-Fund Portfolio
How a Simple Portfolio of Three Total Market Index Funds Outperforms Most Investors with Less Risk
Taylor Larimore
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The Bogleheads' Guide to the Three-Fund Portfolio
How a Simple Portfolio of Three Total Market Index Funds Outperforms Most Investors with Less Risk
Taylor Larimore
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Twenty benefits from the three-fund total market index portfolio.
The Bogleheads' Guide to The Three-Fund Portfolio describes the most popular portfolio on the Bogleheads forum. This all-indexed portfolio contains over 15, 000 worldwide securities, in just three easily-managed funds, that has outperformed the vast majority of both professional and amateur investors.
If you are a new investor, or an experienced investor who wants to simplify and improve your portfolio, The Bogleheads' Guide to The Three-Fund Portfolio is a short, easy-to-read guide to show you how.
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CHAPTER ONE
The Investment Industry
The U.S. investment industry is the largest and most profitable in the world. A 2013 study by the United States Consumer Financial Protection Bureau reported the following: âThe total amount spent annually by financial institutions and other financial service providers on consumer financial products and services, including both awareness advertising and direct marketing, is approximately seventeen billion dollars.â (Italics mine.) This money comes out of the pockets of the industryâs customers and goes into the pockets of company owners, brokers, financial advisors and others seeking to make a profit at the expense of investors.
Rick Ferri, CFA, a former stock broker, retired financial advisor, and author of eight financial books, wrote: âLetâs face it: Most investment companies are in business to make money from you, not for you. Every dollar you save in commissions and fee expenses goes right to your bottom line.â
Just as the gambling industry wants people to think they can beat the casino, the investment industry wants investors to think they can beat the market. Of course, a few lucky gamblers do beat the casino, but MOST DONâT. It is the same for investors: Some will beat the market, but MOST WONâT.
Why do some investors outperform the market while others donât? Princeton professor Burton G. Malkiel, who co-inspired my âlight switch onâ moment, mentioned in the Preface, with my reading of his timeless, A Random Walk Down Wall Street, offers this explanation: âA blindfolded monkey throwing darts at a newspaperâs financial pages could select a portfolio that would do just as well as one carefully selected by experts.â
This, of course, means that in a room full of monkeys, as in a room full of mutual fund managers, there will be winners. Unfortunatelyâfor monkeys, managers and investorsâthe winners are unlikely to repeat.
Bill Miller is a perfect example. Mr. Miller was the manager of Legg Mason Value Trust (LMVTX). His fund is the only mutual fund that was able to beat the S&P 500 Index 15 years in a row. Miller became a celebrity in the mutual fund world, and investors eagerly poured their money into his fund. Unfortunately, like many winning mutual funds, LMVTX plunged to the bottom 1% of its Morningstar category over the next 15 years. Remember: Reversion to the Mean, like gravity, does bring us all back to earth.
Many in the financial services industry hate indexing because it is difficult for them to make money selling low-cost index funds. The industry spends billions of dollars attempting to convince us that they can help us beat the market by choosing winning individual stocks, bonds and mutual funds for us. (Fact: They cannot.)
In the 35th anniversary edition of the Hulbert Financial Digest, publisher Mark Hulbert wrote that, when he began tracking newsletters in 1980, there were 28 of them. Of those 28, only 9 have survived. The rest are gone. Of the 9 newsletter survivors, only 2 have ever beaten the market (measured by the Wilshire 5000 Total Market Index) on a risk-adjusted basis. Just 2 out of 28; those are pretty poor odds.
The benefits of low-cost index funds and exchange-traded funds (ETFs), which Bogleheads have been preaching about for nearly 20 years, are now becoming more widely known and accepted. The evidence of the superior performance of index funds has become so overwhelming that, in April 2017, the New York Times reported that, âthanks to the power of its index funds, Vanguard is pulling in more money than all of the other fund companies in the business.â
Bogleheads Speak Out
âThe more I struggle to perfect and tilt my portfolio with ever smaller adjustments, the more apparent the inherent wisdom of the 3-fund portfolio becomes. It is a marvelous, straightforward solution to a complex issue. Dare I say, it is a supremely elegant solution.ââTT
âAfter hours & hours of reading, the light bulb came on. You have probably saved me thousands of dollars & quite literally could make me millions of dollars more.ââSN
âAfter years of actively âmanagingâ my own investments, and now nearing retirement, Iâve decided to take the more passive approach of the three-fund portfolio. After extensive reading on this subject, and from my own personal investing experience, I have become a believer. Its simplicity and long term results are a thing of beauty.ââNY
âTaylor, Thank you for the 3-fund portfolio. At 56 I have been thru 2 advisors, then 5 years of my own efforts chasing alpha, and the light bulb went off last Fall. I moved everything to Vanguard and now I am using the 3-fund portfolio.ââDA
Bernsteinâs Big-If Paradox
Bill Bernstein, who left his career as a neurologist and became a financial advisor to millionaires, has written a short, 45-page booklet, If You Can, intended for millennials but applicable to all investors. He writes,
Would you believe me if I told you thereâs an investment strategy that a seven-year-old could understand, that will take you fifteen minutes of work per year, that will outperform 90% of financial professionals in the long run, and that will make you a millionaire over time? Well, itâs true. Thatâs it, if you can follow this simple recipe throughout your working career, you will almost certainly beat out most professional investors. More importantly, youâll likely accumulate enough savings to retire comfortably.
Bernsteinâs recipe: Start by saving 15% of your salary at age 25, putting the funds into a 401(k), an IRA, or a taxable account (or all three). Divide your savings into just three different mutual funds:
- A U.S. Total Stock Market Index Fund
- An International Total Stock Market Index Fund
- A U.S. Total Bond Market Index Fund
This great little booklet is currently available as a free PDF at: https://www.etf.com/docs/IfYouCan.pdf.
CHAPTER TWO
John C. BogleâThe Investorâs Best Friend1
Jack (as he prefers to be called) Bogle is the founder of Vanguardâthe only mutual fund company owned by its investors, not by its founder or outside stockholders. This was a tremendous gift to Vanguard investors, since it means that, unlike other fund companies, Vanguard does not use part of investor returns to pay company stockholders. The result is that, after company expenses, all the Vanguard fund returns go to the Vanguard fund investors. The results are remarkable.
For the 10-year period ending September 30, 2017, 9 of 9 Vanguard money market funds, 55 of 58 Vanguard bond funds, 22 of 22 Vanguard balanced funds, and 128 of 137 Vanguard stock fundsâfor a total of 214 of 226 Vanguard fundsâoutperformed their Lipper peer-group average.
âVanguard Report
Jack Bogle is one of a small handful of people who made the investing world serve the hopes and dreams of ordinary people. Whatever his subject, he speaks and writes from a strong, moral belief that finance should be simple, honest, and fair.
âJane Bryant Quinn, syndicated columnist and auth...