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Index gains are just about as risk-free as you can get.

• kgwgk 9y ago
  Yeah, indices do never go down...
• whatok 9y ago
  Wow.
• syncsynchalt 9y ago
  An actual risk-free* investment would be money market or TIPS. Index funds may be the historically best performing equity investments (when including expense ratio) but no equity investment is risk-free.
• lorenzhs 9y ago
  That's what a bull market lasting eight and a half years does to public sentiment :) A crash would make for interesting times, that much is certain.
• vorotato 9y ago
  That's wildly untrue, and to the extent that people think that we are at risk of economic collapse.