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Thesis: There are good and bad aspects of both Index and Mutual Funds, however whichever one is better for any particular person depends on his/her situation and willingness to wait certain times, or pay certain fee’s. Whether money is be the root cause of ....

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.... and contrasting the over shared characteristics of both kinds of stock market investing. Let us begin by explaining what both these terms actually mean. INDEX FUNDS Indexing, in its simplest form, means buying all of the stocks, bonds or other instrument of a market, or asset class, instead of trying to pick winners and losers. Index investors are content with the average performance of a market. When they invest, they buy all an amount of all the stocks within the index with the knowledge that some individual stocks will gain and some will lose. The hope and assumption is when investing in index funds, that the overall net change of all t ....