What are Index Funds (For Dummies)

An index fund is a type of mutual fund whose holdings match or track a particular market index. It's hands-off, and you could build a diversified portfolio earning solid returns using mostly this type of investment.

That's because index funds don’t try to beat the market, or earn higher returns compared with market averages. Instead, these funds try to be the market — buying stocks of every firm listed on an index to mirror the performance of the index as a whole.

Index funds can help balance the risk in an investor's portfolio, as market swings tend to be less volatile across an index compared with individual stocks.

00:00 : What are Index Funds?
00:43 : Key Things To Know
2:29 : What is an Index?

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[DiAndersons]

This is not index funds for dummies. Misleading title. Very technical explanation.

[navyforeveryoungjean-phili]

How you gonna start out with a type of mutual fund??? Now I gotta look up what the hell a mutual fund is

[Haverfield-jihx]

You could do without the typing sounds. It make it harder to concentrate on the information you are trying to dish out.

[mohammediqbal]

So index funds is similar to mutual funds am I right?

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[ChisaTrenice]

What is the best platform to invest in an index fund?

[unamaandanetswera]

Hey
What does he mean by "new money"

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