Oprah Winfrey Drops 40 Pounds And Adds $100 Million To Weight Watchers StockThe passive vs. active question has raged lately, amid new data showing that index funds (passive investing) deliver better and cheaper. Through "passive" investing, which accepts average market returns ­(this means index funds, which track market benchmarks). Here are the basics: You need to reduce expenses, diversify your portfolio into index funds of various asset classes, minimize taxes, and exhibit discipline. Diversify into index funds. However, invested in the S&P 500 index (stocks), you would have $5,386.

Source: Forbes January 15, 2017 19:06 UTC