5 Best Index Funds to Invest In 2022

1. Vanguard S&P 500 ETF (NYSE:VOO)

Vanguard S&P 500 ETF (NYSE:VOO) is an index fund that invests in stocks on the S&P 500 Index. The index comprises 500 of the largest firms in terms of market capitalization that trade on exchanges in the United States. The fund holds each stock in almost the same proportion as its weighting in the index. 

One of the premier holdings of Vanguard S&P 500 ETF (NYSE:VOO) is Meta Platforms, Inc. (NASDAQ:FB), a diversified technology company. At the end of the third quarter of 2021, 248 hedge funds in the database of Insider Monkey held stakes worth $38 billion in Meta Platforms, Inc. (NASDAQ:FB), down from 266 in the preceding quarter worth $42 billion. 

In its Q1 2021 investor letter, ClearBridge Investments, an asset management firm, highlighted a few stocks and Meta Platforms, Inc. (NASDAQ:FB) was one of them. Here is what the fund said:

“We continued to keep our learnings from 2020 in mind during the quarter as we sought to increase the up capture of the portfolio. We also made adjustments to the portfolio’s top 10 holdings to increase the participation of select stocks, including Facebook, while trimming our weighting to stable names, which now represent 47% of the portfolio. Our repositioning has been encouraging so far with the portfolio performing better on up days in the market while maintaining good down capture during more turbulent sessions.”

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