In regards to
your comment about index funds, retail investors rarely beat the market picking individual stocks and are better off putting their money into index funds.
Not exact matches
Rick Ferri wrote in his book «All
About Index Funds» that 25bp below the benchmark is regarded as an ideal target.John Bogle also
commented in his book «Common Sense on Mutual
Funds» that the tracking error must be as close to zero as possible for market returns to be as close to 100 %.
Also,
comment # 5's question
about alternative energy
funds makes a good point
about how even
index funds can result in poor diversification.
I've read Ben Grahams books, etc, etc.... Then after all that analysis, Buffett concludes, everyone should just buy an S&P 500
index fund and forget
about it... Even backs up his
comment with his now famous «bet»....
A reader by the name of Slinky came by and left a
comment on the site: I'd love for you to post
about pros / cons of storing an emergency
fund in different places — online savings, money market,
index, brick and mortar, etc..
It was not in their interest, actually, to have the development of an
index fund because it brought down fees dramatically and as we've talked
about, some in the reports and other people would
comment.