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

Optimist's Tour is fine as far as it goes, but I wish it went further. Unfortunately, as Elroy Dimson points out in Triumph of the Optimists: “While a country has only one past, there are many possible futures. At the very least, this [book] suggests that the recent blind adherence to the cult of the equity needs to be questioned and that the strategic weighting of bonds in institutional portfolios should be increased. Optimists are not less likely to divorce, but they are more likely to remarry (which is, as the article says, "the triumph of hope over experience"). For some quite substantial meat to put onto these philosophical bones, see "Triumph of the Optimists: 101 Years of Global Investment Returns" by Dimson, Marsh, and Staunton, Princeton University Press, 2002. As a book title says, it's the Triumph of the Optimists. I got asked an excellent question from the audience afterwards. Optimists give us reason to be cheerful. Optimists are more likely to have less stress and better physical health. Those of us on the policy side of technology are often optimistic about technology's transformative potential, and pessimistic about its inevitable triumph. The likely rewards from equity investment are worth having over the very long haul. In addition, research by Dimson, Marsh & Staunton in the investment classic “Triumph of the Optimists” found that all 16 major industrialized countries in the world had similar stock market returns above inflation since 1900 3. This guy certainly applies for being an optimist… http://wraltechwire.com/our-future-will-be-brighter-than-you-think-but-more-disruptive/12185002/. 4 Don't be influenced by fashion and what looks cool today usually looks silly a few years later. (See Dimson, Marsh, and Staunton, Triumph of the Optimists: 101 Years of Global Investment Returns). Last night I had the pleasure of presenting on my recent Kickstarter success at the New Work City member Show and Tell. By Anthony Butler, 2013-05-24 05:32:51.0. Triumph of the Optimists: 101 Years of Global Investment Returns. Obviously the title of this post is a riff on the classic book, Triumph of the Optimists by Dimson, Marsh and Staunton (2002). Investors have too often extrapolated from recent experience.