The Standard & Poors 500 stock index is the most common equity index fund benchmark in the U.S. The S&P 500 tracks about 75% of publicly traded U.S. equity market asset value. The dominant issue in choosing among passively managed index mutual funds and ETF funds benchmarked against the S & P 500 is that […]
The diversified no load index fund strategy of the State Street Global Advisors – SSgA S&P 500 Index Fund (SVSPX) According to its prospectus filing on the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission EDGAR system, the investment strategy of the State Street Global Advisors Standard and Poors 500 Index Fund (SVSPX) is “to seek to replicate […]
Overview of the Vanguard 500 Index Fund According to Vanguard’s website, the investment strategy of the Vanguard 500 Index mutual fund is to use a passive management or index “investment approach designed to track the performance of the Standard & Poor’s 500 Index, a widely recognized benchmark of U.S. stock market performance that is dominated […]