3 Reasons Not to Invest in Index Funds
Stashing your savings under your mattress won't help you grow wealth. Neither, frankly, will storing that money in the bank, especially given today's interest rates.
If your goal is to put your savings to work, you'll need to invest that money. But investing carries risk and requires research. After all, you don't want to take your hard-earned savings and throw that money into a handful of stocks you know little about.
It's for this reason that index funds have become a popular choice among investors. Index funds are passively managed funds that track the performance of existing indexes. An S&P 500 index fund, for example, will seek to match the performance of the S&P 500 itself.
Source Fool.com
