It’s a well-known secret that Index Funds should play a major role in most investors’ portfolios.
With their ultra low costs (the typical expense ratio of an index fund was 0.15% for U.S. Large Company Indexes vs. 1.36% for the average large cap actively managed mutual fund as of 2005 source), instant diversification (you can own all 500 stocks in the S&P 500, or whichever index you like, with just one stock), low turnover (which triggers fewer capital gains events), and no style drift (that’s when active managers go outside their core investment market in order to increase returns), it’s no wonder these instruments have been attracting increasingly larger amounts of investor capital over the past few years.
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This article titled “It’s Getting Harder And Harder To Deny The Power Of The Index Fund” highlighted the most important benefit of index funds – it’s the American Pharaoh of investing because it beats its competitors by a wide margin:
Looking at advanced portfolios holding 10 asset classes between 1997 and 2012, researchers found index fund portfolios outperformed comparable actively managed portfolios a staggering 82% to 90% of the time.
And as this white paper illustrated, an index fund’s winning percentage increases over time:
(Posted June 10, 2015)
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