Course 6410 lessons

Index fund investing, deep dive

A deep dive into passive, low-cost index investing as a philosophy and a practice: the evidence behind it, the costs that quietly make or break it, and how to actually build a simple, global, PH-friendly index portfolio.

The core philosophy of index investing

Index investing starts from an uncomfortable admission: reliably picking which stocks, sectors, or fund managers will beat the market ahead of time is extremely hard, even for professionals who do it full time. Instead of trying to guess the handful of winners, the index investor's answer is to simply own all of them, in proportion, through a fund that tracks a broad market index.