RECESSION ALERT: The 5 BEST Index Funds To Buy ASAP

"VTSAX is designed to give you exposure to the entire US equities market including small mid-size and large cap stocks where for one low price you could own a small piece of 4100 different stocks."

"VTWIAX basically if you took everything that i just mentioned smash it all together added into emerging markets and sprinkled on every little bit that you could possibly think of that would be this it gives you exposure throughout the global stock market with a portfolio of over 10 000 different stocks so this is pretty much as diversified as you could possibly get"

"Over the last 10 years international stocks have remained fairly flat and throughout the last two decades the United States has been on a roll outperforming just about every other market out there although that is not guaranteed to continue happening throughout history there have been multiple times where international stocks have outperformed the United States like throughout most of the 1980s and 2000s and there's certainly a chance that that could happen again."

"From 1997 through 2013 growth stocks like these did the worst out of just about every category plus if we go all the way back to 1992 vt sax was often the clear winner all of that is to say that if you build a portfolio based on the previous 10 years you might not see the same returns as we have been in the future"

"Now of course with interest rates increasing it's yet to be seen just how much of an impact this is going to have on real estate values so this fund could end up going down"

"If all you did was just buy into a well-diversified index fund on a regular basis over 20 years you would outperform the vast majority of actively managed funds and you would put yourself in a great financial position to make as much money as possible"

"it also returned an average of 8.2 annually since it was started over 20 years ago meaning over the last decade a 10 000 investment would now be worth 34 000"

"vitaex has returned about five percent annually since its inception in november of 2000 and it'll pay you a dividend to roughly 3.37 annually"

"over the last year it's returned just over six percent and throughout the last three years it's averaged over 13 percent"

"it also includes a dividend of two point nine percent a year so no matter what happens to the stock price you're getting paid back a small portion of your money"

"this one also has the highest returns averaging over 10 annually since 2001."

"between 1980 and 2015 smaller stocks returned 11.2 percent annual growth on average while large stocks returned to 8"

"throughout history there have been multiple times where international stocks have outperformed the united states like throughout most of the 1980s and 2000s and there's certainly a chance that that could happen again"

"from 1997 through 2013 growth stocks like these did the worst out of just about every category"

"if all you did was just buy into a well-diversified index fund on a regular basis over 20 years you would outperform the vast majority of actively managed funds"