1 No-Brainer S&P 500 Index Fund to Buy Right Now for Less Than $200

The S&P 500 is widely considered to be the best indicator of how the U.S. stock market is doing, and it's easy to understand why. After all, it contains 500 of the largest companies in the United States, and these collectively represent 80% of the overall value of all publicly traded companies.However, one characteristic of the S&P 500 that is very important for investors to understand is that it's a weighted index, which means that larger companies account for a greater percentage of the index's performance. And with the rise of trillion-dollar megacap technology companies over the past decade or so, this weighting has resulted in a rather high concentration in just a few big companies.Image source: Getty Images.Continue readingWeiter zum vollständigen Artikel bei MotleyFool Weiter zum vollständigen Artikel bei MotleyFool