WTF Is An Index Fund? | 11
And why everyone is so damn Hot To Trot about them. We take it back to basics, expose the Dark Side of index fund investing, and even share a few indexes you probably haven’t heard of. What are Stocks and why do they increase in value? When a company wants to raise money to re-invest in growing their business, stocks are one way they can do that. They sell a piece of their company, a stock, in exchange for money that they can invest in growing their business. Tangible increase in value is typically due to company growth + currency