Investing

These are the key notes of investing to understand the Business first before the stock, actually I got these notes from the book "Common Sense In Investing" 

• Investing in stocks is to own all of the nation’s publicly held business (at very low cost) 
• Dividends and Earning growth
• Index fund - Buy a fund that holds this all-market portfolio, hold it forever
• No risk of picking individual stocks
• Lack of short-term excitement
• Traditional Index fund (TIF) - Like a life time 
• Last decade alone around $3 trillions swipes in Equity from 28 billions to 4.6 trillions 
• Simply buy standard & poor’s 500 Index fund or a total stock market index fund, buy and get out and forget 
• Since 2009, nations Gross Domestic Product GDP has grown at a nominal rate of 6.2%
• Annual pretax profit of nations corporation grown at rate of 6.3%
• Correlation of GDP & corporate profit growth is 1% perfect
• If you choose to play the winners game of owning shares of business 
• Never try to beat the market and end up playing losers game
• There are no fund managers who repeatedly beat the markets
• For investors as a whole, returns decreases as motion increases 
• No helpers with fees, your profits should include the brokerage and fees and taxes
• Don’t do something, Just stand there to avoid losers game
• Funds which we need to know,
• Growth
• Growth & Income
• Aggressive Growth
• International