Not exact matches
From my understanding, it is conventional wisdom that if a person wishes to invest in the stock market but does not have the time or aptitude to evaluate individual stocks and time the market, he should invest only in no -
load, low - fee mutual
index funds, using a dollar - cost averaging strategy in a buy - and -
hold fashion.
We should buy and
hold a passive, well - diversified portfolio of stocks and bonds, they said, preferably through a no -
load index mutual fund or an exchange - traded fund, requiring as little thought as possible.
Any investor who simply bought and
held a no -
load mutual fund that replicated the Standard & Poorâ $ ™ s 500 stock
index would have had an 11.2 percent compounded return from 1970 to 2006.
No
load index funds do significantly less trading through their buy - and -
hold strategies.
Some of the most widely
held Index funds are
loaded with zombie companies.