market efficiency Archives | Wealthfront Blog Personal Finance & Investing Insights Wed, 12 Jan 2022 01:12:36 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://www.wealthfront.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/cropped-wave-logo-transparent-hi-res-500x500.png market efficiency Archives | Wealthfront Blog 32 32 Is Indexing Worse Than Marxism? https://www.wealthfront.com/blog/indexing-worse-than-marxism/ Tue, 22 Nov 2016 04:07:16 +0000 http://www.wealthfront.com/blog/?p=7094 Index funds have always been ridiculed by active mutual-fund managers.  Two recent events have fueled a new set of criticisms.  The mid-year 2016 Standard and Poor’s report on index fund performance showed that the superiority of low-cost indexing, whether in the form of mutual funds or exchange-traded funds (ETFs), has increased over time.  Over the […]

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]]> Has Indexing Become Too Popular? https://www.wealthfront.com/blog/indexing-become-popular/ Thu, 15 Jan 2015 16:13:48 +0000 http://www.wealthfront.com/blog/?p=4930 Indexed investment strategies (passively holding portfolios that simply buy and hold all the securities in a particular market) continue to increase in popularity. Currently more than 35% of investment portfolios use index funds to gain exposure to the U.S. stock market.1 And according to Morningstar Investment Research, more than 55% of the moneys invested in […]

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