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> a community dedicated to low-cost investing primarily via indexing Right or wrong, that must be one boring place. [Re: downvotes, The post was just intended
by piker 7y ago
> a community dedicated to low-cost investing primarily via indexing
Right or wrong, that must be one boring place.
[Re: downvotes, The post was just intended to convey that the thesis of "put your money in the lowest cost index funds using an allocation formulatically dictated by modern portfolio theory, and don't touch it for the next 35 years" would be unlikely to provide much fresh content.]
- 0xcafecafe 7y agoDepends on where your interests lie. Personally I find that forum insightful.
- beat 7y agoA community consisting of people patting each other on the back for being so much more clever than everyone else is rarely boring to the participants. The fact that this explains a majority of self-selecting communities is purely coincidental, of course.
- greenshackle2 7y agoIncluding Hacker News, no doubt.
- beat 7y agoNO SHIT.
- lukewrites 7y agoYou would think so, but I've been surprised at the diversity of topics on there. There's especially good stuff for folks who are interested in some of the ideas of people like William Bernstein[0], who advocate for index-based portfolios that are more complicated than the bog standard two- or three-fund ones. [0] https://www.bogleheads.org/wiki/William_Bernstein https://www.bogleheads.org/wiki/William_Bernstein