How to pronounce “index fund” in English

Did you invent the index fund?

And an index fund is a fund that tracks a market, a broad market index.

We're talking about index fund investing, and specifically VTSAX, which is Vanguard's total stock market index fund and the one I recommend the most and love the best.

It's the only index fund, like it has all the of an index fund, but has equity kickers.

This is a Vanguard index fund.

which--I love index funds and I think they're great things for lots of reasons, and you don't have to believe markets are efficient or rational to think an index fund is a good

basically get that using an index fund.

And when you invest in an index fund, that fund attempts, to the best of its ability, to mirror everything in that index.

Equities generally if you buy an index fund, you probably will earn 6% to 8% over the next 10 to 20 years

But if you buy an index fund, you're just buying the stock market of America.

This is Vanguard's total stock market index fund.

and Vanguard now is the biggest index fund provider.

And when Jack started the first index fund, it was called Bogle's Folly.

The commodity product is an index fund.

If you could buy an index fund that has the whole market at essentially zero cost and

investors of funds are beaten by an index fund.

Let's say a fund like a broad market index fund, like an S&P 500 fund.

And one of them is a broad-m market index fund that invests in US companies.

So for example, an index fund might track the S&P 500 index.

fund what is called generally a total stock market index fund, which in the Vanguard case is with the Russell 3000.

pay that off because you're not likely to do better in an index fund, in a broad market index fund.

You're not going to compound to the highest return if you buy an index fund.

More common-- and the original fund Jack Bogle created-- is the S&P 500 index fund.

But you will certainly probably find something that is a broad-based index fund.

VTSAX, which is a total stock market index fund, owns-- and it varies-- about 3,600 companies.

Bogle, the high priest of the index funds, he swears that over time you do better as a long-term investor in index fund.

gone down-- emerging markets have been weak this year-- you sell one emerging market index fund and buy another.

Vogel invented--well, created the first index fund for retail investors a few years later.

You would most likely, if you put it in an index fund or an ETF-- and I talk about those in my book--

If you don't want to diverge from the crowd, you can just buy an index fund.

And if I don't, it's a perfectly smart thing to buy an index fund.

If I want to match the market, I can do it for almost free with an index fund.

if they are willing to put in the time to study-- additional time than it would take to just invest in an index fund, let's say, what

But then the best thing to do with your personal excess capital is to buy an index fund, like the ones run by Vanguard

It's an index fund, but it's small in capitalization stocks;

The index fund can't do that and I would think that it would make passive managers even better,

You can't just buy one index fund.

The great irony is that Jack Bogle, who is the founder of Vanguard and the inventor of the first index fund available to the public,

I mentioned the one that I like the best is VTSAX, which is Vanguard's total stock market index fund.

It might not come from Vanguard, which is my preferred company, but an S&P 500 index fund is pretty much the same

As I mentioned, the plan you see in the books is that the investments are supposed to go up about 7% a year if you're investing in a low-fee index fund.

And it has to be something that, intellectually, you enjoy doing because otherwise, you're going to be better off with index fund type solutions,

Well, I think we have been-- of course, the first index fund was founded by a company called Vanguard,

And in fact, I sometimes like to think that Jack and I were the only to investors in the index fund.

It's being above average, being in a low-cost index fund.

I sometimes say if when I wrote my book, I knew that Warren Buffett was going to be Warren Buffett, I wouldn't have said "buy an index fund."

So again, if you're dollar-cost averaging every month and using the Vanguard options, it's probably better to do the index fund than to pick individual stocks.

What I mean is that when the government owns half of a company what the index fund uses as a weight is only the part that trades freely,

Whereas the real individual investors are simply saying, "Well, I picked an index fund, I got my asset allocation right.