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Learn the necessary steps to invest in an S&P 500 index fund — understand the benefits and identify the risks.

Of all the indexes an ETF can mirror, the S&P 500 remains the standard-bearer benchmark for the overall stock market. See ...

Let's say you're investing in an S&P 500 index fund earning a 7% average annual return. At that rate, here's approximately ...

To list the 10 Best S&P 500 Stocks to Buy According to Hedge Funds, we extracted the stocks from the S&P 500 index. After ...

Here's how Buffett's advice could turn $450 invested monthly into $976,700 over three decades.

That comes along with a generous and sustainable yield that places it on the list of the best S&P 500 dividend stocks right now. However, it also features one of the perils of many income-oriented ...

MassMutual Select Funds - MM S&P 500 Index Fund is an open-end equity indexed mutual fund launched by Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Co., Insurance Investments. It is co-managed by Northern ...

The Dow Jones Industrial Average rose to top 44000 for the first time, while the S&P 500 crossed 6000. Both indexes retreated to close the day slightly below those milestones, but delivered their best ...

But investors could beat the odds with a technology-focused index fund. The Vanguard Information Technology ETF (NYSEMKT: VGT) more than doubled the gains in the S&P 500 over the last decade ...

Trillions of dollars are invested in funds that track the performance of the S&P 500. To help you choose which one is right for you, we have rounded up eight of the best S&P 500 ETFs to consider ...

You can purchase and sell it easily in virtually any brokerage account. Vanguard is best known for its low-cost S&P 500 index mutual fund. You can access it in ETF form as the Vanguard S&P 500 ETF.