I am planning to start investing but I have no real interest in "beating the market"; staying with the market is good enough for me, and it seems to me that ETFs and index funds are the ways to do this. If I do not want to deal with researching individual stocks, and I am satisfied with "staying with the market", what are the drawbacks of replacing all the stocks in my portfolio with ETFs and index funds?
I am a novice so I would also like to know what the difference between ETFs and index funds are, where I can go to learn more about them, and how I would choose, say, a Vanguard fund over a T. Rowe Price fund. Of course I would invest internationally, having a representation of all the major global markets in my portfolio instead of just the USA or something...
2007-02-19
08:41:09
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