@kevin___jin:

Marwan :

That’s why I do the s&p 100 because the top companies are usually the ones that appreciate the most. Ex: the mag 7 being 30% of the whole stock market

Hugh :

It’s not top 500 in the world it’s in the US

queenofwingstop :

i read spf500 and was rlly confused

xcx.charlie :

why do ppl listen to ttok financial advice 😭after inflation & taxes realistic sp500 returns are 1-3% or negative lmao. Sector ETFs with 10-20% of the portfolio in active investments >>

Traci Wheeler :

I was like “damn they made SPF 500 now?!”

Reece⛓️ :

top 500 US companies. It carries a lot of unhedged risk, especially at the moment with a certain admin.

nrkwnfieownf :

Spyros :

yeah except european companies and the emerging market outperformed the s&p 500

d :

Top 500 USA companies mate not world

feetfan69420726278384 :

The s&p stayed even for pretty much the whole 2000s. 10 years of no gains is rough and an intelligent investor with a diversified portfolio is def a safer option

juhn :

Investing in the S&P 1 gives better returns all time than the S&P 500. Just full port each investment once the #1 company gets switched to the new one

user2673711411218 :

Its based on size not performance. If the biggest company in the world is going to crater 20% tomorrow, youre guaranteed to be holding it when it falls. Why not the S&P 400? Why not 300? Why not 20? Its a great thing to track but in investing there is no one size fits all correct answer. (Not saying thats your opinion, its just a common idea)

junww6 :

Incorrect, top 500 companies in some US exchanges AND operates in the US primarily. Many companies are not included such as Samsung, and even TSMC.

Casse🦦 :

S&P 500 is USA not world, but a good investment if you got money it doesn’t make you rich

neampojma :

it's not in the world. it's in the US. so only in dollars.

Sebastian Lopez :

Yea actually this is logically sound, if people just realized this and actually believed in it lol and don’t freak out. For the intelligent investor tho, you can always try to strive to beat the market and I think that’s what you should aim to do if you know ball like that

tedcruzeetskids :

Top 500 in the US

klop :

Been using it instead of a piggy bank since I was 6

jsp :

Etf world you're investing in the top 1400 companies in 23 different countries so even if the US market crashes in the future you're still somehow good

Lou :

In the US**

John Hodges :

Except the top 7 control 40% of the wealth, if not more. So if those 7 do poorly then it doesn’t matter too much how the other 493 are doing.

wimpywagon :

To say there is "no better" is kinda dumb. Every strategy is a tradeoff between risk and return. The same thing that would make you say the S&P500 is a better strategy than going all in on Nvidia is an argument in favor of a money market account over the S&P500.

Noah :

Diversify your investments still! South Korea's version of the S&P500 crashed severely due to issues that we already have, 54% of KOSPI was in the top 2 companies in South Korea. In the USA, the 5 companies take up 38.5% of the S&P500, we are just a smaller version of them. US is at the 3rd largest Margin Debt spike in our history, large spikes always coincide with times of economic trouble.

oeh :

this is actually an incomplete explanation for how index funds perform well. they depend on other investors actively managing investments to keep prices efficient. and that still doesn't explain why size is a good proxy for success, since that can arise eg from a merger.