Friend, thought-leader, and sketcher, Carl Richards, posts a blog on the NYT site regarding past performance. Check it out here.

Hill Investment Group’s friend and author, Larry Swedroe, speaks to what confidence can do to the average investor.

In case you missed Michael Lewis on 60 Minutes, check out this eight minute interview on what’s wrong with Wall Street and why he moved his money from his old brokerage firm.

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From the American Finance Association’s “Masters in Finance” video series, Eugene F. Fama presents a brief history of the efficient market theory. The lecture was recorded at the University of Chicago in October 2008 with an introduction by John Cochrane.

Were you out of the stock market when it turned around in March? You’ve got plenty of company. We suggest reading this recent article by Paul Lim of the NYT. Click here for the full article.

It should come as no surprise that active funds do not outperform their benchmarks over a significant time period, but take a look at the data. This graph shows the percentage of funds in the surviving universe (29% do not survive) that beat their benchmark in consecutive years. In the first year (2004), 33% of the funds were winners, but by year five (2008), only 1.4% of the funds (38 out of 2,619) had consistently outperformed their benchmark. Click here for the slide.

Art Holliday interviews Matt Hall regarding the 60% run up in world markets and who could have predicted it.