[moondev]

Start with ETFs and ease your way into it. Vangard has a great site with lots of info to get you started: https://investor.vanguard.com/etf/

They also have a fund explorer where you can easily look at past performance and compare: https://personal.vanguard.com/us/funds/snapshot?FundId=0970&...

[thesimon]

>where you can easily look at past performance and compare

Though this is probably not the best metric to use.