Triumph of the optimists Elroy Dimson, Mike Staunton, Paul Marsh
Publisher: PUP

Being positive is a win-win scenario, and has always triumphed over negativity. I got asked an excellent question from the audience afterwards. And Japan are the obvious winners. No one has ever been successful betting against life. To illustrate this point, here is a great pie chart from Investopedia, taken from the book Triumph of the Optimists: 101 Years of Global Investment Returns: The U.S. Thanks to Doug for posting the link to Global Investment Returns Yearbook synopsis by the authors of Triumph of the Optimists. In Triumph of the Optimists: 101 Years of Global Investment Returns (2002), the authors looked at equity returns from capital gains and dividends from 1900 to 2000. † Swedroe, The Only Guide You'll Ever Need for the Right Financial Plan, Bloomberg Press, 2010. It's a gorgeous coffee table book that dives into data like nothing that's ever been done before. This exhaustive hardcover offers a history of 101 years of global investment returns. Triumph of the Optimists: 101 Years of Global Investment Returns, Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press; Goetzmann, W. Last night I had the pleasure of presenting on my recent Kickstarter success at the New Work City member Show and Tell. Triumph of the Optimists: 101 Years of Global Investment Returns, by Elroy Dimson, Paul Marsh, and Mike Staunton, is considered by many to be the best book written about markets and in so many ways it actually is. Triumph of the Optimists Amazon.com.