Sentences with phrase «about index funds when»

In other words, there is nothing «average» or «mediocre» about index funds when compared with the alternatives.

I first learned about index funds when I graduated from college and began researching how to invest my savings for retirement.

Not exact matches

Turner: One of the things that people in the industry often talk about when it comes to money management is this barbell, where as you said you have low - cost, passive index tracking funds and at the other end you have higher fees, higher active share, things like private debt which you mentioned, and it's those in the middle that are charging higher fees for something that looks quite a lot like beta that are really going to struggle.

When the government bans index funds, you can probably say you heard about it here first, but I would not hold my breath for that.

Professionals rarely do so well over 50 years that their decisions about when to get in and out of a stock lead to better performance than they might have achieved by just putting money into an index fund that buys every stock in a particular category.

These buyers are large investors — central banks, insurance companies, commercial banks and even index funds — that supposedly do not care about returns, and will pay any price when transacting bonds.

Index funds definitely have a large place in a portfolio, but when you invest on your own, you learn about, a) companies and how they make money, and b) how the stock market works.

These buyers are large investors — central banks, insurance companies, commercial banks and even index funds — that supposedly do not care about returns, and will pay any price when transacting bonds.

Russ Koesterich at the iShares Blog writes about when index (and active) funds make sense.

Travis writes: «When I read about index funds and how they out perform â $ œover time.â $ Exactly how much time?

I remember purposely avoiding exposing myself to any information about the stock market except once each week, when I would screw up my courage and move more money from cash into stock and bond index funds.

When I read about index funds and how they out perform «over time.»

When we averaged all 24 combinations of time frame and peer group, the index beat about 60 % of funds.

I recall having bough some Canadian Index ETFs in my brokerage account, and the account reports were showing some negative amounts in the trading account, and when I asked the brokerage company they mentioned something about «ETFs doing distributions, exactly like a classic mutual fund».

The default products when investors think about indexing the broad market have tended to be index mutual funds or exchange - traded funds that are market - cap weighted.

Active mutual funds sometimes get a bad rap as a group overall, but when combined with index funds they can represent a great way to get diversified exposure to just about any asset class.

When talking about index funds that offer no embedded compensation, there's no product alternative available today that has a similar mandate, but with advisor compensation built in.

In Bill Gross's December 2013 Investment Outlook letter, he joined the ranks of Warren Buffett and Peter Lynch in giving a solid endorsement to indexing while reminiscing about his younger days when Jack Bogle introduced the first index fund available to retail investors:... Read More

But when we're talking about investing, you could invest in a value index fund.

I'm not sure such expertise exists at all — and given that the fund in question under - performed a vanilla bond index when managed by the so - called professionals, I'm highly skeptical that if such expertise does exist that a small firm like WS will suddenly possess it in - house... and Eric Kirzner has been there since the beginning, which I should stop ranting about in the footnote.

So when you factor in higher management fees and the possibility of lower returns than broader - based index funds, investors could be giving up about 1 % in average annual investment returns.

This is the response I hear when I talk about index funds.

Why do I spend my days reading and writing about finance when all I really need to do is passively add to my index funds for the next 40 years?

That made one of my eyebrows rise, because I'm under the impression that with every investment; whether you're talking about an actively managed mutual fund, an index fund, an EFT, or anything else; when you get down to the core of what is being traded, you're dealing in stocks.

I'd love to see some hard statistics on this, for sure, but this is a point that many «indexers» and passive investors like to boast about when justifying their love for index funds or index ETFs.

But fortunately when I did set up my IRA I found some good advice about low fee index funds!

Are you refering to ETFs when you talk about index funds?

When I was posting about the AARP's move into mutual funds this morning, it got me to thinking about all the indexes that are available:

When Mary Long - Schimanke read about the Couch Potato portfolio in MoneySense, she went to a bank that offers index funds and asked how she could buy them.

In 2008, when the global stock market shed about a third of its value, broad - market bond index funds delivered over 6 %.

All the things that Value Investors learn about their investments through research are priced in when you buy a share in an index fund.

When you invest in an Index Fund which gives you exposure to around 80 % to 90 % of the market, you need not to worry about further diversification within equity as an asset class.

[0:04:34] MM: Nice and that is one of the nice things about ETF's is they're pretty low cost comparatively speaking even when you compare them to an index fund and what makes some a little bit easier than an index fund is you can trade them like stocks but are there pitfalls to that Stuart?

I meant to toss out a couple thoughts when Robert blogged about index funds, reminded by a Wall Street Journal article yesterday pointing out that the S&P 500 has gone nowhere over the last 9 years.