There's more to investing than the S&P 500!

The media regularly quotes the S&P 500 (SPX) Capitalization Weighted Index. This index has seen two of the biggest hits in its history during the last decade, and is down 23.44% for the decade, but there are many areas of the market which are up for the decade. Take those same 500 stocks, equal weight them and they are up 47.53%. What about Small Cap stocks? The iShares S&P SmallCap 600 Index (IJR) is up 76% since December 31, 1999. Similarly, the Vanguard Emerging Markets ETF (VWO) is up 112.62% and the GreenHaven Continuous Commodity Index (GCC) is up 102.29%.

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