Top Stock Index funds

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Many mutual fund investors buy index funds on the belief that most fund managers cannot beat the overall market or a specific segment of the market.

That is not always true, but index funds have remained popular. If anything, index funds tend to have lower costs because there is less money management involved and less turnover than in most actively managed funds.

To find the best-performing stock index funds this year, Investor's Business Daily searched across all its stock-fund categories for all funds whose titles included "index." The best percentage increases through last Tuesday's close were selected. Performance and expense data were gathered using Fund Center, a research tool found on investors.com.

The results showed the best index fund had a little less than a 16% return year to date, with most other top-performing ones managing less than a 10% gain. With the U.S. stock market unable to rally for extended periods this year, funds that focus on emerging markets or international markets made it to the top 10 more often than U.S.-based funds.

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