If you don't want to spend hours researching individual investments, another option is to buy index funds — baskets of stocks or bonds that track broad-market indexes like the S&P 500.

One of the easiest ways to get started investing is through index funds. What we'll cover How index funds work Index investing is a form of passive investing Index investing with a brokerage ...

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There are many different types of mutual funds. These are some of the most popular. Index funds Also known as passive funds, index funds match the performance of a benchmark index like the S&P 500 ...

The equity stake of the mutual fund did hit ... trailing the index because of an underweighting in some of the market’s hottest large-cap tech stocks (particularly graphics developer Nvidia ...

An index fund might not be a glamorous or exciting investment, but if you aren’t digging deep into the guts of the market and economy every night, you likely won’t become an elite stock picker.