the pp to me is different , it is a concept like a fund would be that used unconventional investing methods . anyone could have bought the s&p 500 stocks as they dominated just about any large cap fund back then but no one could really buy the pp concept since it wasn't out yet to the public . first index trust came out in 1976 .Tyler wrote:Well the first S&P500 index fund was established in 1973. Surely you believe tracking that index before it existed (in any form accessible to normal people) is also a waste of time.mathjak107 wrote: if i remember correctly the idea for the pp didn't exist in 1975 . which also happened to be its best run years but it didn't exist . to be fair tracking it before it existed is really not the way to track things ..
the pp wasn't really out there in its current form until much later .