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.

(k) index funds may be more heavily weighted toward technology stocks than investors realize, which can expose them to hidden sector-specific risks.

It’s an open-ended index fund replicating the Nasdaq 100 Index. With attractive returns clocked by this index attracting ...

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 ...

Tariffs or no tariffs, you need a core holding to carry you through the next 30 years. Our sortable scorecard of 52 Best Buys will take you to it. Buy the dip? That takes some fortitude, when world ...

If you have been looking for Index funds, a place to start could be ONEFUND S&P 500 (INDEX). INDEX carries a Zacks Mutual Fund Rank of 2 (Buy), which is based on various forecasting factors like size, ...

With almost $900 billion and more than 7 million participants, the US Federal Government’s Thrift Savings Plan is the largest retirement plan in the world. This series of articles answers some of the ...

One S&P 500 please, hold the diversity, equity and inclusion. That is the proposed selling point of a new index fund launching Tuesday: The exchange-traded fund mirrors the S&P 500 but excludes 37 ...

Warren Buffett, the CEO of Berkshire Hathaway, is one of the most successful investors in history. His ability to pick the right stocks netted him an average annual return of almost 20% between 1965 ...

R-squared is a statistical measure that shows how similar a mutual fund’s performance is to its benchmark, such as the NSE ...

If you’re parking cash in a money market fund while waiting for recent market volatility to subside, you might be paying dearly for that safe spot. Many money market funds still carry high expense ...