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I want to start an investment fund that follows the S&P 500 index...how can I start that?

I would really love to start an investment fund that follows the the S&P 500 index. What or where is the best place to start an investment account that will do nothing but allow me to make monthly contributions to the account and then follow the S&P 500 index? Thanks in advance for your help!

muncie birder

You have many choices. There are a lot of these available. Some are exchange traded and some are run by mutual fund companies.

The Vanguard S&P 500 index fund is the most famous, because it started the whole trend. But they have become so popular that all of the large mutual fund companies now offer them.

The main differences among them are the expense ratios that they charge and the minimum amount of your initial investment and subsequent investments.

T Rowe Price has one with a $2500 minimum investment and $50 systematic additions. Its expense ratio is somewhat high at 0.37%

http://www.troweprice.com/common/indexFundFacts/0,0,ticker=PREIX,00.html?scn=Moderate_Risk/Return&rfpgid=7134

Vanguard's has a $3000 minimum investment with $100 subsequent. Its expense ratio is only 0.18%

https://flagship.vanguard.com/VGApp/hnw/FundsSnapshot?FundId=0040&FundIntExt=INT

You can buy SPY like a stock. It is an exchange traded index fund. But because of brokerage fees you would be better off with a mutual fund.

Chris

Really anywhere you want. sharebuilder.com Zecco, TDAmeritrade, Schwab, to name a few, are all good starts. If you buy Spyders symbol SPY it's an ETF that tracks the S&P 500. You could also buy a mutual fund like VFINX which is vanguards S&P 500 fund available in almost all the previous locations and vanguard.com. This is a good approach to long term buy and hold investing with dollar cost averaging. Just remember to keep you transaction costs low by using the cheapest alternative you can which in my opinion would either be VFINX for the mutual fund and Zecco or sharebuilder for the ETF.

derek

Open an online investment account with one of the many low cost financial providers (e-trade, ameritrade, schwab, etc.) an invest in a S&P 500 stock index fund.

John T

You could just go to Vanguard and buy the Vanguard 500 Index (VFINX)

They have been doing it longer and have a very low expense ratio. (I am an investor in this fund).

Oh Boy!

There are already hundreds of mutual funds and etf's that do just this. Vanguard is probably the best mutual fund. The ETF is ticker symbol SPY.

B .

Flexible equity indexed annuities gives the potential gain of the market with no downside risk.

Mr. God

You can open an account with almost any investment company. Just look around.
As far as a mutual fund that follows the S&P, I have been really happy with BlackRock S&P 500 Index I (MASRX)

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