How to pick the best index fund

#59: It’s hard to consistently beat the market as an investor…but it takes zero effort to match the market. Picking good index funds lets you match the market for near-zero cost. And matching the market produces some pretty good results. If you had invested – and held – $100k (and not a dime more) in a plain vanilla S&P 500 index fund in January 1990, today it would be worth over $1M. That’s 10x growth in 3 decades, or +7.7% annualized returns. That’s despite a 1990 recession, 2000-2002 d...