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Consider parking some or most of your long-term dollars in index funds. They can make life easy, as you won't have to study the universe of stocks (and/or bonds), making buy-and-sell decisions.

Key Takeaways Index funds consistently outperform actively managed funds.Index funds are also lower-cost and more tax-efficient.Indeed, indexing can be a viable strategy to achieve desired retirement ...

The composition of index funds has changed dramatically over the past 25 years, and not necessarily for the better. A typical index fund from the late 1990s tracked a broad index that held hundreds of ...

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Most investors now buy index funds rather than actively managed offerings. The primary reason is because the public has grown to believe that index funds will post superior returns. Also, they rarely ...

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Fidelity’s flagship bond fund is FXNAX. The fund dates back to 1990, and has accrued $58.5 billion in total assets since its inception. The fund follows the Bloomberg U.S. Aggregate Bond Index as its ...

Index funds have long been hailed as the gold standard for long-term investing—offering low fees, market-wide exposure, and steady returns. Developed by Vanguard founder Jack Bogle, index funds don’t ...

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The U.S. Bond Market, as measured by the Bloomberg U.S. Aggregate Bond Index, generated 2.03% total return in Q3 2025. Read ...