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Over 50 years of learning to index -- My half-century odyssey -- The 10 good reasons to index -- The stock markets of the world have changed extraordinarily -- Indexing outperforms active investing -- Low fees are an important reason to index -- Indexing makes it much easier to focus on your most important investment decisions -- Your taxes are lower when you index -- Indexing saves operational costs -- Indexing makes most investment risks easier to live with -- Indexing avoids "manager risk" -- Indexing helps you avoid costly troubles with Mr Market -- You have much better things to do with your time -- Experts agree most investors should index -- Appendix A: How about "smart beta"? -- Appendix B: How to get started with indexing -- Appendix C: How index funds are managed

Expert insights on what sets the great professional firms apart from all the rest Having devoted a career that spans fifty years to consulting with and studying professional firms in the Americas, Asia, and Europe, author Charles Ellis learned firsthand how difficult it is for an organization to go beyond very good and attain, as well as sustain, excellence. Now, he shares his hard-won insights with you and reveals ""what it takes"" to be best-in-class in any industry. Enlightening and entertaining, What It Takes explores firms that are leaders in their particular field and t.

"Charley Ellis has written a magnificent portrait, capturing the indomitable spirit of Joe Wilson and his instinctive understanding of the need for and commercial usefulness of a transforming imaging technology. Joe Wilson and his extraordinary team, which I had the good fortune to first meet in 1960, epitomized the wonderful observation of George Bernard Shaw who said, 'Some look at things that are, and ask why? I dream of things that never were and ask why not?' Xerox and xerography are not only a part of our vocabulary, but part of our everyday life. Charley Ellis gives the reader a poignan