Skyrocketing valuations have made the tech sector highly represented in the S&P 500. An investment in the S&P 500 is akin to ...

To understand how to invest in an S&P 500 index fund, you’ll first need to know a bit about the underlying index. The Standard & Poor’s 500 index tracks the stock market performance of the 500 ...

S&P 500 index funds and ETFs are a lower-risk, lower-effort type of investment. Getting started early will make it far easier to reach $1 million or more. However, there's one major downside of ...

You don’t need to live on the other side of the Atlantic to feel the pull of the S&P 500. It’s now in the third year of an impressive bull run, powered by the advances of the so-called “Magnificent ...

Sometimes companies booted from the S&P 500 go on to outperform the index. Recent examples include Zion Bank, Lincoln ...

A number of mutual fund firms, Vanguard and Charles Schwab, to name a couple, are being forced to amend their prospectus around SEC diversification requirements ...

But for many investors, S&P 500 index funds remain the overwhelming favorite when it comes to long-term investing. The S&P 500 index tracks the prices of the 500 largest U.S. public companies ...

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The S&P 500 Index of larger U.S. companies is the most widely followed market barometer. There are good reasons to like this ...

Jeff Reeves writes about investments, the stock market, exchange-traded funds and retirement topics. A veteran journalist with extensive capital markets experience, Jeff has covered Wall Street ...

Sometimes, a simple and straightforward approach like investing in an S&P 500 (SNPINDEX: ^GSPC) index fund or ETF could help you reach $1 million or more with little effort. However, to build ...