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By STE's Stocks Investing Journey  •  September 3, 2019

Not All Index Are Created Equal

I think most of us are using Index as bench-marking against our portfolio’s performance and from time to time, we often hear about buying index as kind of passive investment. Some financial advisors are even proposing “DCA” or dollar cost averaging for Index with “buy and hold” strategy.

“The average annualized total return for the S&P 500 index over the past 90 years is 9.8 %.”

Guess this is the most “eye-catching” phrase that often mentioned in the news which is also the most powerful words to attract investors pouring billions of dollars into Index ETFs under the so called “passive investment” strategy.

But remember that not all Index are created equal, if the index are added with many “toxic stocks”, such index will sure underperform than other world indexes. <source:InvestingNote.com>

Look at the chart , If you are a fresh

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By STE's Stocks Investing Journey
Hi Everyone ! is me STE, I would like to start a blog to pen down and document my thoughts on stocks investing and also “talking to myself “ on some issues relating to investing ideas / world . I will try not to mention any particular stock in my blog post as it is very hard to do any “prediction or forecast “ of future or stock's movement and also this may attract unnecessary dispute / incident if anything goes wrong .. I will be using more graphic / chart / table / quotes to explain my thought and ideas as “ pictures worth more than thousand words “ ,, the most important things is …I don’t really good in explaining things in words.. haha .
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