Comment on If investing in the S&P 500 is such a surefire way to make money, then why isn't everyone doing it?
ComradeMiao@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks agoLast green index fund I invested in lost 50% during covid. Luckily I got out. I don’t see why the common person should worry about each individual stocks ethics within a large index fund. Our individual choice does little but ride us of huge potential gains for our retirement. I agree with your point but think it hurts us more than them.
Disagreement aside, why do you say Russell 2000 helps?
We want to hold the owners of Amazon or oil companies accountable, and what makes them the owners of they hold a of of stocks. Holding fewer stocks seems like you’re enabling the compromise, just at a much much lower amount.
Russell 2000 is the top 3000 companies minus the top 1000 companies. So it doesn’t invest in the really big ones.
Meron35@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
If it makes you feel better many green index funds aren’t green at all, and simply manipulate their holdings around audit and reporting times, in a phenomenon known as green window dressing.
Green Window Dressing by Gianpaolo Parise, Mirco Rubin :: SSRN - papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=44593…