How to choose from among so many Index funds and exchanged traded funds?
If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting! The author of this website recommends equity exposure through index funds and exchange traded funds as opposed to direct stocks ownership (if not enough capital) and actively managed mutual funds. See that there are basically only three ways to own stocks, not considering an investment linked insurance policies that invest some of the policy holders’ premiums in equities. As of now, there are more than 1000 index funds and exchanged traded funds available in the United States, without including other countries. Out of these 1000 passively managed funds, around 300 consisted of index mutual funds and more than 700 exchange-traded funds. The number of such funds will continue to increase as a result increasing popularity of average investors in them. With so many funds available, it will be hard to choose from without some reasonable guidelines, just like housewives choose apples and oranges in the superma
