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Market MakeHer Podcast

104: Okay, But What Even Is an Index Fund?

March 12, 2026·35 min
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Don’t Beat the Market; Be the Market. You hear about index funds everywhere…on TikTok, from your finance friends, even on our Market MakeHer merch (yes, the “Index Funds and Chill Shirt” is real). But what are they, really? And why do people say we should have them in our portfolio? In this episode, I asked Jess to break it all down for us, starting with the jargon. We dig into why index funds are the simplest way to invest and why they’re considered the foundation of most long-term portfol...

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