Index investing is a great approach, but you can do even better with specific stocks or cryptocurrencies from time to time.

Let's say you invested $1,000 in an index fund tracking the S&P 500 (SNPINDEX: ^GSPC) index 5 years ago. The SPDR S&P 500 ETF (NYSEMKT: SPY) is one popular option with minimal management fees and a stellar history of reflecting its chosen index.

If you reinvested dividends into more shares of the exchange-traded fund (ETF) over time, you would have doubled your money by now. That's an average annual return of 15% -- well above the 10-year average at 12% or the 10% annual returns since the ETF was introduced 41 years ago.

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Source Fool.com