Investing for Retirement: Passive Investing – Indexed Mutual Funds & ETFs

The only rational path for individual investors is to invest in passively managed index funds. For the reasons described here, active management is a negative-sum game. Index funds track the performance of a particular market benchmark (“index”) as closely as possible. They do this by buying all, or at least a representative sample, of the securities in the benchmark. Indexing now represents approximately 30% of all investment dollars. Index mutual funds have $2 trillion in assets. ETF index funds have a similar amount. Surprisingly, that means that approximately 70% of investment dollars are still in actively managed funds! Continue reading Investing for Retirement: Passive Investing – Indexed Mutual Funds & ETFs

Investing for Retirement: Table of Contents

Contents Overview Defining Your Investment Objectives Building Your Net Worth by Budgeting, Saving & Investing Compounding, Inflation & Real Returns Controlling the Costs of Your Investing Risk, Return & Time Market Risk Other Types of Risk Longevity & Mortality Risk Health Risk Event Risk Tax & Policy Risk Investment Return Time Recalling the Lessons of History Predicting the Future Financial Market Efficiency The Efficient Market … Continue reading Investing for Retirement: Table of Contents