Can You Lose Money in an Index Fund?
There’s one thing index funds do very well: minimizing risk. When you add a lot of stock variety, it’s easy to protect against bad trends. Unfortunately, that means you can neither earn much in the short term. It removes uncertainty and places the bets in the long run. You almost never hear of people who lost money after years of investing in index funds. You may even think it’s not possible to lose, no matter what you do. What we’ve …