David Swensen Archives | Wealthfront Blog Personal Finance & Investing Insights Wed, 12 Jan 2022 01:12:48 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://www.wealthfront.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/cropped-wave-logo-transparent-hi-res-500x500.png David Swensen Archives | Wealthfront Blog 32 32 Why Disclosures Don’t Work https://www.wealthfront.com/blog/call-bullshit-disclosures-dont-work/ Tue, 20 Sep 2011 15:22:19 +0000 /blog/?p=1401 Last month, in a provocative op-ed in The New York Times, David Swensen, Yale University’s chief investment officer, lashed out at mutual funds. He said, in short, that mutual funds invest poorly and have fees that investors don’t understand, and that some of the brokers and advisors who sell mutual funds use “pointless buying and […]

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]]> How To Tell If Your Advisor Eats His Own Cooking And What John Bogle Has To Say About It https://www.wealthfront.com/blog/money-managers-advisors-eat-cooking/ Wed, 07 Sep 2011 20:21:26 +0000 /blog/?p=1352 A recent study by research firm Morningstar Inc. found that just 40% of mutual fund managers were doing with their own money what they want you to do with yours: invest in their funds. After the report came out, the digital ink flowed on the question of whether mutual fund managers should “eat their own […]

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