The Power of Index Funds

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Please don’t skip this page and we explain 2 important financial concepts in simple detail as they are the backbone of what we are doing at BIT10.

First of all, what is an Index fund?

In traditional finance an index fund is a big basket of different stocks that you can buy, and it grows as the market grows.

An ETF is just like an Index Fund except you can trade it like a stock.

So why are Index funds so Powerful?

Index funds spread your money across a range of assets, reducing risk as losses from one can be balanced by gains in others. They have lower fees, and research shows they beat actively managed funds over time, making them a simpler and better long-term investment choice with less effort required.

A powerful example is the Famous Warren Buffet bet.

Warren Buffett made a bet in 2008 saying

Over 10 years, a low-cost S&P 500 index fund would outperform a group of actively managed hedge funds.

Buffett believed that most hedge fund managers couldn't consistently beat the market after their high fees, but the S&P 500 index fund, with its low fees, would likely do better. In the end, after 10 years, the index fund won the bet, proving that keeping things simple, with low-cost, long-term investments, often beats trying to pick individual winners.

Investing in index funds is one of the most reliable ways to build wealth over time. If you had invested $100 in the S&P 500 index 30 years ago, it would now be worth over $2,000. The same principle applies to cryptocurrency markets, which are still in their early stages of growth.