Index Funds Explained

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Question 1

Who founded The Vanguard Group in 1974 and pioneered the first index mutual fund available to individual retail investors?

Question 2

What derogatory nickname was given to Vanguard's first index fund by Wall Street critics when it launched in 1976?

Question 3

What metric represents the annual percentage fee charged by mutual funds and ETFs to cover operating management costs?

Question 4

What stock market index, maintained by S&P Dow Jones Indices, tracks 500 large-cap American public corporations?

Question 5

What market weighting method allocates greater portfolio weight to companies with larger total equity market values?

Question 6

What first exchange-traded fund (ETF) in the United States was launched in January 1993, tracking the S&P 500 under ticker SPY?

Question 7

According to S&P SPIVA scorecards, what percentage of active large-cap US fund managers fail to beat the S&P 500 over 15 years?

Question 8

What investment strategy automatically spreads risk across hundreds or thousands of individual companies in diverse sectors?

Question 9

What broad-market index tracking nearly all investable US public equities was created in 1974?

Question 10

What financial economic hypothesis, formulated by Eugene Fama, posits that stock prices reflect all available information?

Who founded The Vanguard Group in 1974 and pioneered the first index mutual fund available to individual retail investors?