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Warren Buffett has asked his trustees to put

90% of his wealth in S&P500 Index Fund after his death🤯

Here is everything about Index Funds 👇 #IndexFund
1/ What is an Index❓

An index measures a subset of the stock market,

that helps investors compare the market performance over a time period

Nifty - Top 50 listed stocks by market cap in India
Sensex - Top 30 listed stocks by market cap in India
2/ What is an Index Fund❓

Index Fund is a passively managed Mutual Fund

It invests in such a way that it imitates a stock market indices like the

- Nifty,
- Next Nifty50,
- Sensex
- Bank Nifty etc

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William Sharpe's "Zero Sum" explained using simple analogy of Mumbai local trains...

A thread by @samdesai62

#ETF #IndexFund #PassiveInvesting
• In a densly crowded peak hour, many commuters rush to catch window seats....

• Window seats are limited in number...
• ...the few who managed to catch window seats on a particular day, therefore generated "alpha", they outperformed, i.e.,"all other railway commuters" ( the aggregate market )
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