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by fasthands9 378 days ago
That's very fair. Index funds are conventional wisdom now, but I do suspect there was a long time where they were undervalued because fees were high. Now, everyone is encouraged to invest in them and do think the conventional wisdom in 30 years could possibly swing back to real estate or something like "index funds of tech"
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> Index funds [...] fees were high

According to https://corporate.vanguard.com/content/corporatesite/us/en/c... they were 0.35% in 1990. Higher than now, but hardly "high".

Of course there are other fees involved and everything was more complex and more expensive.