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Why invest in index funds?
- Minimize your time spent researching individual stocks.
- You can invest with less risk.
- Index funds are available for a wide variety of investments. You can buy stock index funds and bond index funds.
- It's a lot less expensive.
- You'll pay less in taxes.
- It's a lot easier to stick with your investing plan. When you use index funds, you can automatically invest month after month and ignore short-term ups and down
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Why not to invest in index funds?
- You'll never beat the market.
- You don't have any loss protection.
- You won't always own stocks you like.
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2. Choose the right fund for your index
Once you've chosen an index, you can generally find at least one index fund that tracks it. For popular indexes like the S&P 500, you might have a dozen or more choices all tracking the same index.
If you have more than one index fund option for your chosen index, you'll want to ask...
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What Are the Three Major Stock Indexes?
The three most widely followed indexes in the U.S. are the S&P 500, Dow Jones Industrial Average, and Nasdaq Composite.
- The Standard and Poor's 500 Index is an index of 500 large cap common stocks that represent all different sectors of the market.
- The NASDAQ 100 index is the ...
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3. Buy index fund shares
To buy shares in your chosen index fund, you can typically open an account directly with the mutual fund company that offers the fund. Alternatively, you can open a brokerage account with a broker that allows you to buy and sell shares of the index fund you're interested in.
Again, in decid...
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1. Pick an index
There are hundreds of different indexes you can track using index funds. The most popular index is the S&P 500 Index
Here's a short list of some additional top indexes, broken down by what part of the market they cover:
- Large U.S. stocks: S&P 500, Dow Jones Industrial Average, Na...
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Your 3-step process to investing in index funds
- Pick the index that you want to track.
- Choose a fund that tracks your selected index.
- Buy shares of that index fund.
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What is an Index Fund?
An index fund is an investment that tracks a market index, typically made up of stocks or bonds.
Index funds typically invest in all the components that are included in the index they track, and they have fund managers whose job it is to make sure that the index fund performs the same as t...
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Hedge Funds
... are investment vehicles which aims to hedge (aka minimize or eliminate) market risk. Some differences from traditional funds:
- they are available to people with more than $1-5M
- they are available to "accredited" investors, ...
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- If you have a 401(k) or another retirement plan at work, it’s very likely the first place you should put your money— especially if your company matches a portion of your contributions.
- A robo-advisor. These services manage your investments for you using computer algorit...
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