>the stock market will probably be there, just not necessarily the individual stocks you are currently invested in Part of the beauty of index investing - name

>the stock market will probably be there, just not necessarily the individual stocks you are currently invested in Part of the beauty of index investing - names can rotate in and out of your benchmark based on whatever criteria the index uses (e.g. market value) but you're not bound to a company that drops from the index (you are, however, exposed between the time it becomes ineligible and the next rebalance).