Tag: Index Funds

  • Are Capitalization-Weighted Indexes (Like the S&P 500) Inferior?

    Most financial advisors agree that it’s difficult to beat “the market”. It’s easy to define “beat the market” as generating an investment return (typically before tax, and typically ignoring transactions costs) that is greater than the market return. But what, exactly, is “the market”? Which Stocks in the Index? In…