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Treasuries represent about 35 % of the Barclays Capital Aggregate Bond Index, so if you think they are not a good investment, buying a bond index fund is not a good Index, so if you think they are not a good investment, buying a bond index fund is not a good index fund is not a good idea.

I don't think anyone here needs the stats about the performance of active funds vs the index repeated.

Due in part to a growing lack of faith in traditional financial advising brought about by this trend, more and more investors are switching to low - cost passive online advisors (often called robo - advisors) who exclusively or almost exclusively invest clients» capital into index - tracking funds, the thought being that if they can not beat the market they may as well join it.

I use an index plus strategy where most of my positions are from index funds, but then I'll choose about 20 % of the names in individual stocks that I think are most promising.

A smart beta bond fund is still an index fund, and still made up of bonds, but it is also an entirely new way to think about bond investing.

After recently mentioning that I would consider an investment in the Vanguard Wellington Fund if I wanted to create wealth in such a way that I did not have to spend much time thinking about investments or intended to pass the ownership stake on to someone that did not have much knowledge about investing (i.e. if you wanted to turn your children into trust fund babies in a way that they could not ruin it, you'd want to set up a restricted trust that only permitted the kids to receive the interest and dividend income generated by the fund, perhaps with the instruction that the assets transfer into an S&P 500 index fund if the Wellington Fund were to ever cease to exiFund if I wanted to create wealth in such a way that I did not have to spend much time thinking about investments or intended to pass the ownership stake on to someone that did not have much knowledge about investing (i.e. if you wanted to turn your children into trust fund babies in a way that they could not ruin it, you'd want to set up a restricted trust that only permitted the kids to receive the interest and dividend income generated by the fund, perhaps with the instruction that the assets transfer into an S&P 500 index fund if the Wellington Fund were to ever cease to exifund babies in a way that they could not ruin it, you'd want to set up a restricted trust that only permitted the kids to receive the interest and dividend income generated by the fund, perhaps with the instruction that the assets transfer into an S&P 500 index fund if the Wellington Fund were to ever cease to exifund, perhaps with the instruction that the assets transfer into an S&P 500 index fund if the Wellington Fund were to ever cease to exifund if the Wellington Fund were to ever cease to exiFund were to ever cease to exist).

It took about five years of hemming and hawing, but I finally pulled all my thoughts on index funds into one place... back in 1997.

If you are unable to think about stocks or the index funds that hold those stocks rationally — and understand that just because the market declined, say, 25 percent, does not mean you have lost 25 percent of your underlying earnings power, you stand virtually no chance of enjoying this sort of outcome.

Investors may want to think about taking a percentage of their U.S. core bond fund exposure and allocating it to a hedged international bond market index fund, such as the iShares Core International Aggregate Bond ETF (IAGG).

Yea I'm definitely an index fund kind of guy too but it's fun to think about things like this.

Any fund manager that worth his salt and did not make at least 200 % since 09 should think about their thinking models and those that make less than 50 % should consider give up managing others money and just buy S&P 500 index becasue S&P 500 is at 666.79 in March 2009, today 2100 + is up 215 + %.

So think of index mutual funds as a way to build a position and gain knowledge about investing.

I tend to think that as long as you have a solid foundation with an index fund, then it makes sense to make a couple of «bets» on stocks you feel strongly about — maybe you'll hit a home run.

Q; I follow your recommended Vanguard portfolios and wonder what you think about the recent addition of two International Bond funds — the Vanguard Total International Bond Index Fund and the Emerging Markets Government Index Fund?

I've been thinking about investing in an index fund, and have heard such great things about the Vanguard Funds.

But I have been thinking about ways to take more calculated steps / risk in the future beyond the index fund way.

As you invest more, you can think about branching out to smaller or more specialized sectors of the market or funds that track international indexes.

But once you have more money, you should think about opening a discount brokerage account and replacing those index funds with lower - cost exchange traded funds (ETFs).

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.

A smart beta bond fund is still an index fund, and still made up of bonds, but it is also an entirely new way to think about bond investing.

Investors may want to think about taking a percentage of their U.S. core bond fund exposure and allocating it to a hedged international bond market index fund, such as the iShares Core International Aggregate Bond ETF (IAGG).

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I think you are a little religious about index funds.

I started thinking more about this question myself after several investors I follow online switched to index funds over the past few years, citing lower -LSB-...]

Many socially responsible investors seem to think buying a company's stock is somehow giving them capital they can use to do evil, and that's why they're wary about owning index funds.

But you may even want to think about index mutual funds instead.

I'd make sure that 90 - 95 % of my portfolio is in index funds before thinking about diversifying into these highly risky assets.

I started thinking more about this question myself after several investors I follow online switched to index funds over the past few years, citing lower fees, less work, and very acceptable returns.

I've been thinking really hard about investing in index funds, I plan on starting with Schwab since I only have about $ 3k in the bank.

However, while I don't agree with Buffett about how individual investors should be investing, I do think that for investors who don't want to try to pick winning stocks, his endorsement of low - fee index funds is spot on.

Due in part to a growing lack of faith in traditional financial advising brought about by this trend, more and more investors are switching to low - cost passive online advisors (often called robo - advisors) who exclusively or almost exclusively invest clients» capital into index - tracking funds, the thought being that if they can not beat the market they may as well join it.

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:

You could always try to pick stocks and hope to pick the winners but just think about it; out of all actively managed mutual funds, a whopping 82 % of them did not constantly beat the index over the last decade.

It keeps me from thinking about allocations in the same way that an index fund keeps me from thinking about individual stocks.

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.

I am thinking of working with Tangerine as I am new and think that it will provide a good starting point as I continue to learn about the best ways in invest in index funds.

If you want to invest in stocks, you can click two buttons to buy an index fund and never have to think about it again.

Now, think about a diversified index mutual fund with hundreds of holdings and you realize you don't need to own more than a few diversified index funds.

Millions of investors thought they could just buy an index fund and forget about it.