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How to navigate the investment landscape with index strategies

5 minutes

 “Why look for a needle in a haystack, when you can buy the entire haystack?”
 

That was The Vanguard Group founder Jack Bogle’s famous argument for indexing, nearly half a century ago, when he launched the first index fund for individual investors.
 

Index investing allows market participants to simply use a defined basket of stocks or securities to build an investment portfolio to meet their goals. The investment approach of index investing is easy to execute and offers instant diversification at a low fee.