Subscribe to our newsletter. Why Index Funds Win Index funds are winning big. Even when the market is down, index funds seem to lead the laggards.
Any investment strategy can have a few good years in the short term.
Surely the high-paid Wall Street fund managers emerge with superior performance over the long term. As a result, there are more indexes and index funds available than ever before. No one knows for sure. But, there are some fundamental features of index funds that help explain how they often beat actively managed funds. Market Unpredictability Nobody can predict when the market will rise or fall.