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Index Investing for Beginners – You’re Ultimate Guide to Getting Started

September 4, 2019 By Kevin | Just Start Investing

Everyone should be investing in some capacity if they can. Whether it’s through a 401(k), a Roth IRA, or just a personal brokerage account, investing is one of the best things you can do for yourself! And if all those fancy numbers and abbreviations (looking at you, Roth IRA) mean nothing to you, don’t worry, we’re breaking down how anyone can get started in this index investing for beginners guide.

Before we get started, imagine this for a second… Let’s say when you were born you put $100 in your piggy bank. And every year for your birthday, you were fortunate enough to add $100 to that piggy bank (or your parents added it for you). When you turned 18 and went to withdraw that money, instead of it being $1,800, it was $3,700. Over double the amount you expected!

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Where to Buy Index Funds: The Best Online Brokers for Index Investing

March 17, 2019 By Kevin | Just Start Investing

Part of learning how to index invest is knowing where to buy index funds. Not all online brokerage accounts are created equal when it comes to buying index funds and ETFs.

Some online brokers offer rock bottom fees and a wide variety of index funds to choose from. Others charge you for every trade and don’t offer index funds with low expense ratios. Choosing the right one can save you hundreds, if not thousands of dollars ever year.

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What is an Expense Ratio and Why it’s Important

March 3, 2019 By Kevin | Just Start Investing

An expense ratio affects everything from exchange traded funds (ETFs) to mutual funds. It’s important to keep expense ratios as low as possible, as a high expense ratio can cost you hundreds of thousands of dollars over the long term.

An Index investing strategy can quickly get derailed if you do not keep costs low. With a high expense ratio, your portfolio is no longer getting the return of the overall market, it’s getting less!

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What is Index Investing: A Beginner’s Guide

February 24, 2019 By Kevin | Just Start Investing

Index investing is a great strategy for beginners. It takes the complexity out of stock picking because you are buying the overall stock (or bond) market, not individual stocks. It guarantees your returns will be similar to the market you are looking to mirror (i.e., the S&P 500).

Many expert investors, like Warren Buffett, agree with and promote index investing. As Buffett told CNBC, “Consistently buy an S&P 500 low-cost index fund… I think it’s the thing that makes the most sense practically all of the time.”

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