Charles Ellis
The Guardian
What holds, and what fails, under pressure, standards and accountability.
Charles Ellis reads as The Guardian because six decades of work have been aimed not at extracting value from markets but at shielding investors from the structural forces built to erode it. The Greenwich Associates founder diagnoses behavioural cost as a recurring wound and prescribes low-cost indexing as its remedy, steady stewardship over competitive ambition. His measure of success is a guardian's standard, how faithfully advisers serve the client's actual objectives.
“If you find a problem, it's a repetitive problem. In this sure is attack the problem and try to reduce it. So what could you do to reduce the cost of behavioral economics? The answer is index or ETF.”
“The average investor in an average year loses two full percent by making mistakes. With the best of intentions, trying to do something really good for themselves, they make mistakes that are costly.”
“If it's your desire to help people be more successful in achieving their objectives, then candidly you could have a fabulous time. It won't come because you beat the market, but that's not the problem for most people.”
Masters in Business: “Rethinking Investing with Greenwich Associates' Charles Ellis”
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