Mutual funds and index funds allow investors to invest in diverse assets. Although these terms are often confused with being similar, they differ in terms of management style, portfolio composition, ...

Index funds offer a way to invest in many securities, providing instant portfolio diversification. They are less costly due to low expense ratios compared to actively managed funds. When selecting ...

Mutual funds allow investors to pool funds for diversified investment managed by professionals. Mutual fund types include stock, bond, money market, and target date funds. High fees can reduce returns ...

Passive funds have remained in focus among both investors and mutual fund houses. Data shows that mutual funds launched as many as 115 passive schemes (including index funds, Gold ETF, Other ETFs and ...

Investors and retirement savers who want to own broad swaths of the stock and bond markets often face a choice: Do they want to buy time-honored mutual funds, or upstart exchange-traded funds? If ...

From arbitrage to midcaps, there are plenty of new fund offers (NFOs) which are up for grabs for retail investors ...

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 ...

The days of the star stock-picking portfolio manager are largely behind investors, with a few exceptions. For years, passive index funds have dominated the mutual fund and exchange-traded fund (ETF) ...

Target-date strategies continue to be the go-to retirement savings vehicle for US workers, with over $4 trillion in assets invested in these investments at the end of 2024. That’s larger than all but ...

Following a market recovery, midcap mutual funds have emerged as top performers, outperforming their peers. Several schemes ...