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Building Your First Portfolio From Scratch

Your First Investment • Beginner Investing • 7 min

Building a "real" first portfolio doesn't require picking 15-20 individual stocks — for most first-time investors, the simplest possible approach is also a genuinely strong one: a single broad-market index fund, or a target-date fund matched to your expected retirement year, delivers a complete, diversified portfolio in one purchase. A target-date fund specifically handles an important ongoing decision…

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