Comments on: Investment Theory http://qbrain.randomnonsense.com/investment-theory/ Finance, Food, Fitness Tue, 28 Oct 2008 01:36:07 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: jcomometer http://qbrain.randomnonsense.com/investment-theory/comment-page-1/#comment-377 jcomometer Tue, 21 Mar 2006 15:47:33 +0000 http://qbrain.randomnonsense.com/?p=99#comment-377 The S&P 500 index may not be the best choice but I would not call it a "pretty bad choice". Worrying about the ups/downs of the market for a long-term couch potato investor just does not make sense. I suppose that assumes that the average investor in an S&P 500 index fund is a couch potato investor. If you get market returns I think you are doing alright. If you beat the market you're a superstar and why do you care about index funds in the first place? But overall I hear you. You're just trying to find something better. =\ The S&P 500 index may not be the best choice but I would not call it a “pretty bad choice”. Worrying about the ups/downs of the market for a long-term couch potato investor just does not make sense. I suppose that assumes that the average investor in an S&P 500 index fund is a couch potato investor.

If you get market returns I think you are doing alright. If you beat the market you’re a superstar and why do you care about index funds in the first place?

But overall I hear you. You’re just trying to find something better. =\

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