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Index Funds: Passive Investing Basics

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“Index Funds: Passive Investing Basics” is a 4-lesson course at Teen level, created with soclever, a personal AI teacher. Each lesson takes a few minutes and ends with a check-in question; finish the curriculum and you can take a certificate test to earn a diploma. Try the first lesson without an account — or make your own course on any topic. Shared by @meirrosenschein.

What you'll learn

  1. What Is an Index Fund?. Most people think of investing as picking individual companies—yet Warren Buffett has long told ordinary investors to buy a low-cost S&P 500 index fund, which deliberately refuses to pick.

Questions this course answers

  • If an index fund tracks the S&P 500, what will happen to the fund's value if the S&P 500 rises 10%?
  • What are the main ideas behind Passive vs. Active Management?
  • How does Index Composition Work?
  • What are the main ideas behind Costs, Tracking Error, and Smart Beta?

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