Discover the key differences between index funds and ETFs, including fees, trading, and tax efficiency, to decide which investment best fits your financial goals.

Consider parking some or most of your long-term dollars in index funds. They can make life easy, as you won't have to study the universe of stocks (and/or bonds), making buy-and-sell decisions.

Since index funds consistently beat active management over the long-run, they are often a more viable option for retirement saving success.

My selection process prioritized funds with low expense ratios, strong tracking accuracy to their underlying indices, and substantial assets under management (AUM) for liquidity. I evaluated each fund ...

Vanguard is best known for being one of the most fee-friendly fund managers thanks to its unique cooperative structure. Shareholders of Vanguard's mutual funds are effectively the owners of ...

Bitwise Asset Management’s 10 Crypto Index Fund (BITW) is moving from the over-the-counter market to NYSE Arca, a shift that ...

Something unusual is happening in a market long dominated by index funds. Active management is staging a comeback. Take the action in equity exchange-traded funds two weeks ago. Amid more whipsaw ...

Indexes have changed a lot over the past century. What was once state-of-the-art is now antiquated. The first indexes used information that was available, not what was best for building a portfolio.

Academic finance has uncovered powerful insights, from the efficient-market hypothesis to the Fama-French five-factor model. Unlike proprietary trading algorithms, these breakthroughs are published ...

The three main differences between index funds and mutual funds are management style, investment objective and cost. Index funds tend to be the clear winner over the long term. Many, or all, of the ...