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Good index funds? Looking for both US S&P500 and MSCI EAFE.?

October 7th, 2010

Any good recommendations for me? My net worth isn’t sky-high so they would need somewhat low minimum investments of maybe 00 or so. I’m thinking of replacing my more expensive managed international and local growth funds with them.

Anything I should consider before making the move? I’ve noticed my managed funds, even when beating the indexes, tend to be either even or below when factoring in expense ratios. So, I figured why not just go with the index.

Is there a list of major funds somewhere with the expense ratios? I figure the only major differential between them would be those ratios.

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Why do managed index funds seem to have a one-day delay on the market?

October 6th, 2010

In following index funds over the past few years, I’ve noticed a strange phenomenon. It seems that (passively and actively managed) index funds seem to have a one-day delay on the actual market. For example, if the DJIA has an awesome rally of +5% on Day 1, then the index funds don’t show the gains until Day 2. Some example index funds that demonstrate this phenomenon are VFINX, JMCVX, and JAVLX.

Thanks for your help!
Thanks for your answers so far. So, with non-ETF index funds, if I want to capture the state of the market’s performance on Day 0, I should buy on Day 0, and the price I pay is the price at the close of Day 0. Is this correct?

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clarification on index funds?

October 5th, 2010

I’m 19 years old and trying to plan for my future. I’ve been trying to do research on things to invest in and originally i went into this looking into buying a mutual fund. most of the information i found said that mutual funds arent the way to go but index funds are where its at. Ive been looking into this "VTSMX" fund but I just don’t understand how i’ll really make money with it long term. I just don’t understand how its a good long term investment. The stock market goes up 2 out of every 3 years i read somewhere but it seems like like it takes 2 years to recover from how long it got at one point. so how do I make money on an index fund when it just platues. As far as the fund is concerned it went to 35$ at one point and then came back down to 14 and then continued to rise to 38 again. I guess I just don’t quite understand and have alot more learning to go. any insight would be wonderful

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What index funds should I invest in? (I have Fidelity)?

October 4th, 2010

Okay, I keep reading that the best, safest way to invest is to buy Index funds. I have looked into these and most of these have minimums at least 2500, 10k, or even 100k. If I have 20k to invest and I want to have a diversified portfolio, how should I invest this 20k into the index funds?

I currently have an extra 1500 that i invest in individual stocks.

What is the difference between a mutual fund vs index fund?

Any input will be greatly thankful. Thanks and have a great day!

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Why are Index Funds so popular these days?

October 3rd, 2010

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ETF vs. Index funds?

October 2nd, 2010

Please cite the differences between ETFs, Index funds and mutual funds..

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I invest in 5 different index funds for my ROTH IRA. Do you think this mixture is good?

October 1st, 2010

I invest in 5 index funds through Vanguard but am always second guessing myself. I plan on holding these funds long term. I am currently 39 years old. The five funds are 1) Emerging Markets Index Fund 2) Total International Index Fund 3) 500 Index Fund 4) Large Cap Value Fund 5) Small Cap Index Fund.

What do you think? As you see above, I try to keep each fund at about 20% of the total value. So as you see, that means 40% is in international. 60% is in US index funds. Is this a good mixture?

Please help!!

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Can I buy shares (or index funds, mutual funds, etfs) in NYSE (or any) if i live in Ecuador?

September 30th, 2010

BTW, in Ecuador (if you dont know where it is, its in south america), we use american dollars. so, will i get taxed the same way as americans when buyng stocks (or any)?

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Mutual funds transferred to an Index fund?

September 29th, 2010

Hey, certainly not the right place to ask important financial questions but did need some quick clarification…

Listening to NPR today and one of the top performing investor’s overall recommendation was that basically, a basic index fund will, on average, out perform any Mutual fund. And, because Index funds have less fees associated with them, the investor really will make out far better in the long run. His advice was, of course, not to pull your money out of your investment account but to perhaps transfer it to an Index Fund.

Since this was really limited information, my question was really about how the mutual fund works. I’ve lost, say, 30k in the 3 different mutual funds I have now. Shouldn’t I just leave the money in (since it’s already a loss) and hope the value goes up in the next 10 years? Or, within the mutual fund are the stocks constantly trading so the stock my mutual fund holds now, will not be the same stock in it 10 years from now. If the later is the case, I can see why moving it to an index fund makes sense. But if investors usually keep the same core stocks, then isn’t transferring my money to an Index fund the same as pulling out of the market? Does this make sense?