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Steve, I've also read 'A Random Walk Down Wall Street' and found it good and would recommend it but essentially a similar message to Bogle's books just written in a different style - all pro index books that I've read tend to say the same thing, that over the long term, empirical research has...

If you liked it have a read of 'Common sense on mutual funds'. A similar concept but more in depth and updated post GFC. May be a bit of index fund overkill reading many similar books essentially saying the same thing, but i got value out of both.

For those investing in funds such as VTS, how do you mitigate the currency risk? "The Vanguard US Total Market Shares Index ETF is fully exposed to the fluctuating values of foreign currencies as there will not be any hedging of foreign currencies to the Australian dollar."

Great thread. My current share strategy is mainly investing in Vanguard VHY ETF. I chose this fund because it provides an acceptable yield, but still generally tracks the performance of the broader ASX so has a reasonable capital growth rate. For me it's the appropriate balance between yield...