Benefits of Investing in Index Funds

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With index fund investing, you can buy the overall stock (or bond) market instead of individual stocks (or bonds). This guarantees your performance will match that of the market your decide to mirror (like the S&P 500) with minimal work involved! Anyone can do it.

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What is Index Fund Investing?

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7 Reasons to Take Up Index Fund Investing

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7 Reasons to Take Up Index Fund Investing

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7 Reasons to Take Up Index Fund Investing

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Benefits of Investing in Index Funds

With index fund investing, you can buy the overall stock (or bond) market instead of individual stocks (or bonds). This guarantees your performance will match that of the market your decide to mirror (like the S&P 500) with minimal work involved! Anyone can do it.

What is Index Fund Investing?

“An index fund is the combination of an index and a mutual fund. Well, really an index fund is a mutual fund. But it is a mutual fund that invests to mirror a specific index, rather than whatever the mutual fund manager feels like choosing that day.”

7 Reasons to Take Up Index Fund Investing

The first, and arguably most important benefit to index fund investing is the low expense ratios. An expense ratio is a fee that gets charged annually to keep the index fund (or mutual fund) up and running. It is your cost.

1. Low Expense Ratios

7 Reasons to Take Up Index Fund Investing

Index funds, in general, do a good job of eliminating or minimizing these fees so that you can keep more of your money in the long-term.

2. Index Funds Do Not (Usually) Have Hidden Fees

7 Reasons to Take Up Index Fund Investing

With index fund investing, if you invest through the right broker you can trade their index funds for free!

3. Free Trades

7 Reasons to Take Up Index Fund Investing

Index fund investing is simple and easy to do. Anyone can do it! Yes, anyone!

4. Simplicity

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