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2. Index funds: What they are and how to invest in them - AOL

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   For example, an S&P 500 index fund tracks the collective performance of the hundreds of companies in the S&P 500. If the S&P 500 is up 5 percent in a year, the fund should be close to that, too ...

3. What are the different types of index funds? - AOL

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   Here are a few popular bond index funds: Vanguard Long-Term Bond ETF (BLV) – This fund aims to track the performance of the Bloomberg U.S. Long Government/Credit Float Adjusted Index and provide ...

4. Index Funds vs. Mutual Funds: Which Is Best? - AOL

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   Performance. Ironically, index funds usually perform better than actively managed mutual funds. Few actively managed funds beat the market in any given year, and even fewer outperform their ...

5. Index fund - Wikipedia

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   Index fund. An index fund (also index tracker) is a mutual fund or exchange-traded fund (ETF) designed to follow certain preset rules so that it can replicate the performance ("track") of a specified basket of underlying investments. [1]

6. S&P 500 - Wikipedia

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   A daily volume chart of the S&P 500 index from January 3, 1950, to February 19, 2016. Logarithmic Chart of S&P 500 Index with and without Inflation and with Best Fit and other graphs to Feb 2024. The Standard and Poor's 500, or simply the S&P 500, [5] is a stock market index tracking the stock performance of 500 of the largest companies listed ...

7. Stock market index - Wikipedia

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   The NASDAQ spiked during the dot-com bubble in the late 1990s, a result of the large number of technology companies on that index. In finance, a stock index, or stock market index, is an index that measures the performance of a stock market, or of a subset of a stock market. It helps investors compare current stock price levels with past prices ...