INVESTING IN INDEX FUNDS AS AN EFFICIENT METHOD OF MANAGING RISKS IN PERSONAL FINANCE
Keywords:
index, investment, funds, risks, individualAbstract
Index funds have developed efficient methods of risk management, whereby they represent a low-risk and moderately profitable class of investments in their theoretical basis. But index funds offer many advantages to investors, especially individual investors who manage their own funds. Freed from the complexity of other types of investment funds that are dedicated to active trading of securities, investment funds are based on a weighted investment in all shares of a certain index. Therefore, their average rate of return on assets is almost always equal to the average rate of return on assets of the index in which these funds invest.
Through this way of investing, a large number of risks arising from investing in individual securities are avoided, among which idiosyncratic risk, industrial risk and others appear. Investment funds thus protect individual investors from risks arising from a lack of knowledge of the markets and the inability to predict market movements in a precise and consistent manner.
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