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February 8, 2016

Investors use index funds to try to beat the market

  • The industry calls these funds that track different kinds of indexes “smart-beta” options. Some see it as the next generation of indexing.
    • By STAN CHOE
    AP Business Writer

    NEW YORK — Don't try to beat the market.

    The adage got pounded for years into investors, and many began to live by it. After seeing so many investments fail to keep up with the Standard & Poor's 500 index, investors put their money instead into low-cost index funds. They were happy to get returns that were the same as the market.


     
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