Index Fund Investing

This cluster features repeated advice to invest savings in low-cost index funds or ETFs like VTI, S&P 500, or Vanguard funds, emphasizing strategies like dollar-cost averaging, long-term holding, and avoiding stock picking or active management.

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thejteam Jan 9, 2024 View on HN

Invest in a standard index fund (like S&P500, etc)

bmn__ May 7, 2020 View on HN

Wisdom of the crowd: https://old.reddit.com/r/personalfinance/wikiYou decide whether to trust it. Considering your circumstances, the advice can be condensed to buying and continually investing into ETF and holding the assets for a couple of decades, as a few fellow HNers already said.

yuppie_scum Mar 8, 2022 View on HN

Just invest in real estate or vanguard funds. Much lower downside.

TylerE Oct 6, 2016 View on HN

Just buy an index fund that tracks the S&P or Dow

im3w1l Sep 1, 2021 View on HN

Consider automatically investing a big portion of it.

alexfromapex Jun 7, 2021 View on HN

Put it in an index fund. Warren buffet said if he could go back he would just put tons of money in an index and wait.

cimmanom May 3, 2018 View on HN

My advice would be to echo those who suggest index funds or target retirement funds.BUT: there's reason to believe that the stock markets are currently near peak. Instead of investing all your money at once, you may want to do something called "dollar cost averaging", where you spread out your investment by putting a bit into the market every month for years. That way you get some of the benefit from a market that continues to rise in the short term but don't lose your shi

rifung Jun 20, 2019 View on HN

Put it in an index fund like VTI and don't touch it or use one of the robo investor platforms like Wealthfront and Betterment.

melvinroest May 19, 2020 View on HN

I know this one!Disclaimer: not a financial advisor, I do trade stocks as a hobby and am interested in personal finance.Invest in an index fund. I am a fan of Vanguard based on that one good friend of mine is a fan of it (and he studied finance) and that one acquaintance who has this as a very big hobby is a fan of it. (early bitcoin investor, read way more personal finance books than me, etc.).I only know specific vendors in The Netherlands. If I were you, make an ask HN about it. I&#x

zachcb Feb 10, 2017 View on HN

Put it in an index fund and leave it.