Lower Cost, No Load S&P 500 Index Funds If you wonder which no load investments have the lowest costs, the research article, “S&P 500 Index Mutual Funds,” by John A. Haslem, H. Kent Baker, and David M. Smith can help. It was published in the March/April 2007 issue of the Journal of Indexes (pages 34-38) […]
Excessive index fund costs hurt individual investors. S & P 500 index fund investing has grown steadily in popularity. The global securities industry has introduced thousands of index mutual fund and index ETF products to meet and stimulate investor demand. However, most or these index funds do not really serve the financial interests of long-term, […]
Buy index funds directly from no load mutual fund companies to save money. To buy S&P 500 index funds, click on any of the 10 low cost, no load mutual funds below to find additional information about them. The article “Top 10 S&P 500 Index Funds” explains how this list was developed. The five letter […]
The diversified no load mutual fund strategy of the Vanguard 500 Index Fund The Standard & Poors 500 stock index is the most common equity index fund benchmark in the U.S. The S and P 500 tracks about 75% of publicly traded U.S. equity market asset value. The dominant issue in choosing among passively managed […]
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 no load index fund strategy of the Schwab S & P 500 Index Fund At approximately $4.3 billion in assets, the Schwab S&P 500 Index Fund (SWPPX) is a low cost, medium sized, passively managed diversified index mutual fund. This mutual fund’s investment portfolio consists of large capitalization U.S. stock securities. The objective of […]