Posts Tagged with "Index fund"

Information Overload – What are some good index funds?

Wednesday, February 3, 2010

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Image by Getty Images via Daylife How do you decide what stocks to purchase? Which index funds are the best? The problem with finance isn’t the lack of information but rather that there is too much of it. The paradox of choice overwhelms us and in the end, we do nothing, and stick with the [...]

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What are Index Funds, and why should you care?

Wednesday, January 13, 2010

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Image via Wikipedia Here’s my first post on investments to buy that aren’t cash or short term cash equivalents. Read up, it’s important. Index Funds are like a mutual fund, but they are set up to mimic indices like the S&P 500 or Wilshire 5000, etc. Here’ s the definition courtesy of Investopedia: A type [...]

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