Do you believe that the world economy will grow? Do you believe that US economy will grow? I do. The major stock indexes are indicators of economy grow. You can make money use this opportunity buying index funds. Investing into index mutual funds is easy, interesting, and profitable. It takes 5 minutes every month! If you are long-term investor, index funds is for you!

It doesn’t matter what index you choose. This index will grow due to economy sector grow rate. There are many indexes in the world. But how to get money from indexes grow?

There are many indexes mutual funds. Fund share price change accordance index performance. There are thousands of mutual funds have S&P 500 as a base of their portfolio. The differences from one fund to other are operating company and expenses. Choose fund with fell known operating company and smallest expenses.

Small expenses are very important. If fund have big expenses, the managers steal investors’ money. Index fund manager don’t buy expensive stock market researches, don’t arrive at a difficult decision witch stock to buy. Index fund manager buy stock included into index only. It isn’t expensive!

The best investment strategy for indexes mutual funds is to invest some dollar amount monthly. And be the long-term investor – invest for 10 years or more. Our computer modeling of this strategy shows that you will receive profit, if you invest on monthly base during 10 years. I can’t give you guaranties that you will get profit but the probability of this is close to 100%.

And the last, if you can, diversify you portfolio. Divide you portfolio into three parts. Buy large capitalization company index fund (S&P 500, DJA), small capitalization index fund (S&P 600) and developed market index fund or international index fund. It makes you portfolio more profitable and more stable.

Alexander Korablev. Individual investor and owner of FPLab.com website

Article Directory: Article Dashboard

Other articles from Mutual Funds...
22.  What are mutual funds loads? by Michael Saville
23.  What are mutual funds? by Michael Saville
24.  Mutual Funds - An Introduction and Brief History by Sachin A
25.  Hedge funds - establishing a new frontier by Tony Reed
26.  Stocks Or Mutual Funds? by Herb Lazarus
27.  Going global through mutual funds by Tony Reed
28.  Market timing with your mutual funds by Tony Reed
29.  How to select a mutual fund by Tony Reed
30.  Mutual funds: protect yourself with segregated funds by Tony Reed
31.  How to Avoid a bad Mutual Fund by Neal Brown