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Got $500 to Invest in Stocks? Put It in This Index Fund.

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It doesn't take much money to get a lot out of investing. Give the stock market enough time, and compounding will take good care of you. But what if you had just $500 to kick-start your investing portfolio?

An index fund -- designed to track a specific market index -- would be an excellent choice to start. These funds are buckets of individual stocks lumped together and traded under one ticker symbol.

The Vanguard S&P 500 ETF (NYSEMKT: VOO) tracks, you guessed it, the S&P 500.

Source Fool.com

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