Sentences with phrase «to buy index funds»

Why pay higher active fees for all this uncertainty and potential disappointment when you could instead just buy an index fund and lock in the market's (fee - adjusted) return?

You can do a lot to spread your risk by buying an index fund rather than individual stocks.

Frequently, passive investors buy index funds for tactical rather than strategic reasons, meaning they expect to move in and out of positions quickly.

$ First — and again — buy index funds for the long term.

She also bought some index funds in her brokerage account totaling $ 1,100 and managed to add $ 500 to her high - yield savings accounts.

And if no active fund can outperform, then it makes sense to simply buy an index fund based on that particular benchmark.

Pro Tip 3: You can buy index funds directly with a mutual fund.

So is it better to buy index funds with growth option?

People buy index funds (and actively managed mutual funds, and sometimes stocks) and just hang on.

There are several ways to do this, I can recommend you to buy index funds at first.

Their prices have been driven down so that you can then buy index funds close to zero cost.

Anyone who buys an index fund can instantly obtain near - market returns, and indeed, he or she will beat most professional managers after costs.

Personally I'm not interested in individual bonds — I'd rather buy an index fund or ETF that buys the types of bonds I want.

As previously mentioned, this will be accomplished by regularly buying index funds.

Those who want to go the easiest route will typically buy index funds.

«You can't generate alpha so buy index funds» makes no sense to me.

Buying an index fund means you buy all the securities in an index — or a curated list of investments.

Why pay higher active fees for all this uncertainty and potential disappointment when you could instead just buy an index fund and lock in the market's (fee - adjusted) return?

Investors buy index funds and index - linked ETFs under the assumption that they will mimic the price appreciation they expect for the underlying commodities.

You could have bought an index fund in early 2009 and made a bundle.

By buying index funds, you ensure that you receive what the market delivers.

For one thing, you couldn't buy index funds.

There are several ways to do this, I can recommend you to buy index funds at first.

Then buy index funds, because their superior performance, in relation to other funds, looks likely to persist for the long term.

The cash - sitters were more likely to be told to take the cautious step of buying index funds.

Buffett recommends buying index funds as a way to get steady returns, and avoiding having to pick stocks, he tells CNBC's «On the Money.»

As for the lower than expected return, it's no different from buying an index fund, say an S&P 500 fund that never lives up to its name.

I don't want to try to «time» the market before buying index funds because I know it always goes up eventually, but I'd love to have less debt on the house, too.

Contemplating setting up an automated system to buy index funds periodically.

It's not my primary investment strategy, which is actually buying index funds through Vanguard.

It's not my primary investment strategy, which is actually buying index funds through Vanguard.

It's easy to understand why; buying an index fund seems to remove much of the guesswork from investing.

I will probably continue to add dividend stocks and reinvest the dividends, but I may also start buying index funds while they're low.

WE DO N'T LIKE: Like many T. Rowe funds, a bit like buying an index fund with a value slant, or an index with the most over-valued stocks removed.

People should buy index funds because they want to participate in the productivity of the U.S. economy.

You wouldn't want to buy an index fund which only covers forestry companies when you actually wanted a broad - based index funds covering all the larger companies in the US.

If you are considering buying an index fund that tracks the S&P 500, compare its long - term performance to actively managed funds that invest in U.S. large cap stocks.

It's true you can only buy index funds from the Money Market within your RESP but they can link the money market to any bank account you want.

Suggesting people buy an index fund instead of stock isn't the answer either.

An alternative is to buy an index fund on which dividends are not distributed, but are automatically reinvested instead.

When you are mindlessly buying a index fund, mutual fund, or a set list of dividend stocks on a list with every paycheck are you really an investor, especially if you consistently underperform?

Passive investors simply buy an index fund consisting of the broad market and stand back.

I am still buying index funds as I am automating my way to financial independence.

When compared to the benchmark averages (sometimes referred to «Lipper Averages «-RRB-, more than 60 % of actively managed stock mutual funds fail to outperform their segment indexes (in other words, if a mutual fund targets the oil and gas industry, you'll do better just buying an index fund targeting the entire oil and gas industry rather than buying an actively managed mutual fund that targeted only the «best» companies within the oil and gas industry).

Also, people surely have bought index funds due to the Megaphone used by Bogle and Buffett.

I think that the Bogle example is taken a bit out of context — Bogle is not saying buy individual stocks because ETFs are too easy to trade, he's saying buy index funds (which have trading limits) instead of ETFs.

Most of the people here are talking about buying an index fund or funds, so there's no real way that stock buybacks by individual companies are going to be a very useful indicator of much of anything in that context.

Also, just to clarify, if someone did buy an index fund 10 years ago and just held it, they actually would have done quite a bit better than breaking even, provided the dividends were reinvested (which is usually the case).

Notes about this list: 1) You can just buy index funds directly from an mutual fund company that wants direct relationships with the investing public.