Sentences with phrase «simply in a stock market index»

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On multiple occasions, exchange - traded fund data has supported the idea that money pulled from tech has simply been reallocated elsewhere in the stock market, keeping indexes afloat.

Instead of having a well - paid guy or gal sitting on Wall Street choosing which stocks to buy, an index fund simply buys shares in many companies, aiming to track the overall performance of the stock market as closely as possible.

The main reason why I invest in a total stock market index fund is that I am in my mid-20's, and the biggest factor in growing my nest egg is simply to pump as much saved - money into it as I can.

Rather than simply holding the stocks in the indexes they track, these funds use a derivative called a «swap» to get exposure to the market.

I already have 10 % of my stocks in the Healthcare sector, for example, simply by owning broad market index funds.

Simply put, Buffett has sold long - dated insurance against the debt of specific companies (credit default obligations or CDSs, expiring between 2009 and 2013) and against declines in the world's major stock market indices (equity index put options, with the first expiration in 2019 and average maturity of 13.5 years).

* Standard & Poor's 500 Index — simply owns shares of the dominant firms in corporate America, buying an interest in each stock in the stock market in proportion to its market capitalization, and then holding it forever.

While a stock average is simply the arithmetic mean of a group of prices, a stock index is an average expressed in relation to an earlier established base market value (e.g., the S&P 500 uses 1941 to 1943 as a base period).

With passive investing (also known as index investing or «investing in index funds») an investor simply uses mutual funds to buy all of the stocks in the market.

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If you decide that you simply must bet on a better standard of living in the stock market — and I hope you don't — then limit stocks to 40 % or 50 % of your portfolio at most and invest in low cost index funds.

As Mr. Buffet would be quick to point out, those who simply invested in the Total Stock Market Index fund received the largest reward, if suffering gut - wrenching drawdown in 2009.

This video was to simply show you an example of the last 10 years (sometimes called the lost decade due to continual losses in the markets) and how being indexed, and not loosing when the stock drop, over time, will work out WAY better in the end.