This might be a stupid question, but I just started buying index funds and I need some advice. I already have the Total Market Index Fund and I was wondering if it made sense to buy the S&P 500 too?

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It’s basically the same. S&P500 has the largest 500 publicly traded companies in the market which will give very similar returns over time.

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...meaning, your total market is heavily weighted toward the top 500, so they're not really that different. Someone posted an article about this recently and they had the exact same return over like 70-80 years.

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