Kiplinger’s Personal Finance — September 2017

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IF YOU’RE TRYING TO EDGE THE OVERALL

stock market, you can take your chances by

picking individual issues, or you could buy

an actively managed mutual fund. But some

exchange-traded funds may get the job

done, too, and it won’t cost you much to give

them a shot. // ETFs are like mutual funds,

but they trade like stocks. The biggest and

cheapest ETFs mirror major benchmarks,

such as Standard & Poor’s 500-stock index.

Annual fees for many ETFs are extraordi-

narily low—as little as 3 cents per year for

every $100 invested. //

Yet you don’t need

to pay much more for ETFs that aim to beat

Our choices aim to beat

traditional benchmarks.

BY DAREN FOND

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OOur choices aim

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BY DAREN FON

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