3 Smart Investments You Can Make With Just $500

If you want to get started investing but don't have a ton of money to invest, don't let that fact discourage you. While it's true that you need at least a few thousand dollars to create a properly diversified portfolio of individual stocks, here are three ways you could start investing for your future today with just $500 or even less.

It may surprise you, coming from one of the most highly regarded stock pickers of all time, that Warren Buffett believes that the best investment most Americans can make are low-cost index funds, and the exchange-traded fund (ETF) variety is a great way for investors without a ton of capital to get started. Buffett particularly loves S&P 500 index funds as a bet on American business, but there are low-cost ETFs available for all sorts of investment objectives and risk tolerances.

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