Hacker News Reader

How do you decide what index funds to put money into?

edit: Furthermore, how did you come to the decision to put money into index funds instead of something else?

My limited reading and research into stock market investing. I liked the sound of low cost management as opposed to mutual funds, as well as history has shown index funds to do fairly well. I have chosen funds based on companies I respect that are larger percentages that the index fund allocates to, such as S&P 500.

You might want to look at index funds of different countries not just the US stock market (S&P). Then your portfolio becomes a question of how you weight countries rather than choosing stocks.

Reply on news.ycombinator.com