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Brian Mengel,
Civil Servant
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It is usually based on an outside index such as US Treasury Bills or the cost of funds in the local Federal Reserve District.
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John Fielding,
CEO
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Because index funds don’t have to pay a portfolio managers to analyze and select stocks or bonds, the expense ratios of index funds are typically much lower than those of actively managed mutual funds.
Index funds are characterized by low operating costs (which translates into higher gains for investors), low trading activity (which translates into lower capital gains taxes for investors) and they try not to outperform the market.
It is consistent with the evidence on administrative costs in other settings if workers are forced to invest their individual accounts in a limited number of broadly diversified index funds held with a limited number of financial providers and are not permitted to shift funds freely among accounts.
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Mike Enlow,
Internet Marketer
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The S and P 500 index funds invest in every company in the S and P 500 and could therefore qualify as a blend.
They call them index funds and they have a bonus advantage above others in that you will generally pay very low maintenance fees.
Index funds get designed to follow a specific market index, for example the S and P 500 index.
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Arthur Dawkins,
Astro-physicist
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False Index funds all basically do the same thing.
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Dan Toomey,
Computer Salesman
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Macro Hedge Funds - Are those which are more benchmark or index oriented.
When you are ready to invest, add the stocks and index funds you want to your Basket using the Add to Basket button.
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