Book – ‘Reboot Your Portfolio – 9 Steps to Successful Investing with ETFs’ – Dan Bortolotti

Efforts to "beat the market" are futile for most investors. A successful investment plan may use a passive index strategy with a diversified portfolio of very low cost Exchange Traded Funds (ETF) to capture market returns.

Individuals can achieve higher returns with moderate risk by following a long-term investment strategy based on low-cost index funds; that diversity across a specific set of asset classes; and with rebalancing annually.

Stock prices follow an unpredictable “random walk”. Book introduces efficient-market hypothesis. It challenges notion that investors can achieve above-average returns through technical or fundamental analysis.