Valuation-Informed Indexing -- Index Investing and Valuations
Valuation-Informed Indexing is a new approach to index investing that calls for changes in asset allocations in response to changes in stock valuations.
This page sets forth brief descriptions of and links to pages at the PassionSaving.com site that discuss the Valuation-Informed Indexing approach to investing.
The True Cause of the Current Financial Crisis
Index Investing and Valuations Article #1 -- The Stock-Selling Industry made millions pushing the idea that there is no need to take into consideration the price of stocks when setting our stock allocations and caused today's economic crisis by doing it.
Buy-and-Hold Investing Doesn't Work -- These Links Prove It!
Index Investing and Valuations Article #2 -- Links to 20 articles reporting the Truth That Could Not Be Told (Until Now!) About Stock Investing.
Buy-and-Hold Is Dead -- These Studies Prove It! (Part One)
Index Investing and Valuations Article #3 -- Links to and Juicy Excerpts from nine studies showing that valuations affect long-term returns.
Buy-and-Hold Is Dead -- These Studies Prove It! (Part Two)
Index Investing and Valuations Article #4 -- Links to and Juicy Excerpts from eleven more studies showing that valuations affect long-term returns.
Indexing Without the Emotional Baggage
Index Investing and Valuations Article #5 -- If indexing is to survive, we need to disassociate it from the failed Passive Investing idea.
The Case Against Valuation-Informed Indexing
Index Investing and Valuations Article #6 -- Here are 20 arguments you need to think over before going down the path recommended at this site.
Twelve Tenets of Valuation-Informed Indexing
Index Investing and Valuations Article #7 -- Valuation-Informed Indexing is the exciting new approach to investing developed in the Financial Freedom Discussion-Board Community as a result of the insights into what the historical stock-return data really says that we developed together during The Great Safe Withdrawal Rate Debate. This article lists and briefly describes the twelve key tenets of this new approach, an approach that will permit middle-class investors to attain financial freedom years sooner, presuming that stocks perform in the future somewhat in the way in which they have always performed in the past.
The How-To of Investing the Valuation-Informed Indexing Way
Index Investing and Valuations Article #8 -- Nine practical steps leading to a more realistic approach to indexing.
Rational Investing vs. Passive Investing
Index Investing and Valuations Article #9 -- Irrational investing is a habit hard to break.
Pros and Cons of Index Investing
Index Investing and Valuations Article #10 -- Index investing makes sense in many circumstances. But the purist approach followed by many indexers today, an approach in which the effects of valuations are ignored, does not.
Stock Picking for Indexers
Index Investing and Valuations Article #11 -- Indexing and stock picking work well together.
Stock Crash Facts
Index Investing and Valuations Article #12 -- A stock crash is a rare event, right?
Yes and no.
Ordinarily, that's very much the case. When we are at the sorts of stock valuation levels that apply today (this article was written in September 2006), though....
Stock Boom Facts
Index Investing and Valuations Article #13 -- The good side of a stock crash is that it sets the stage for the stock boom to follow. It's not too early to begin preparing for the next big upward move.
Market Timing -- What Works and What Doesn't
Index Investing and Valuations Article #14 -- Those practicing long-term market timing are neither bulls nor bears -- we’re dolphins!
Investing Research and the Tricky Tricks Used to Trick You
Index Investing and Valuations Article #15 -- Investing research parades as science, but much of it is better described as science fiction.
The 10 Most Common Objections to Following a Realistic Investing Strategy
Index Investing and Valuations Article #16 -- Why most of us resist the common-sense voice telling us to follow a realistic investing strategy.

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