Index Funds

Index funds benefit investors in other ways besides low fees. Trading expenses and tax consequences are minimal.

Investing icon Warren Buffett advises investors to stash 90% of their money in a Standard & Poor’s 500-stock index fund and keep the rest in short-ter…

Vanguard founder John C. Bogle died Jan. 16 at age 89. But "Saint Jack," who built the index fund from virtually nothing into a $5 trillion empire and…

Their zealous devotion to the principles espoused by John Bogle means a nearly exclusive reliance on index funds and close ties with Vanguard.

Owners of Vanguard index funds’ Investor class shares to be moved into Admiral class

Which is better: ETFs or mutual funds? And how do you decide where to put your investments? CFRA fund expert Todd Rosenbluth has some answers. Also, h…

A set-it-and-forget-it investing approach is certainly a pretty easy route for retirement savers to take, but it might be contributing to some big pro…

Buffett easily won his 10-year bet against the hedge-fund industry thanks to the cheap efficiency of simple index funds.

Vanguard, long considered the king of low-cost indexing, has lost its throne—for the time being.

Decisions can be difficult when you’re faced with too many choices.

When investors ask themselves how much risk they’re comfortable taking, they’re probably not answering the question in the right way … and it could co…

Low-cost index funds tend to outperform most actively managed funds over time. One smart solution: Strike a balance between the two.

Build a portfolio that balances index funds with actively managed funds to get the best returns over time.

Past results are no guarantee of future performance, they say. Here are some reasons why.

Vanguard scores with a fund that owns long-term government debt from emerging markets.

Fewer actively managed funds are beating Standard & Poor’s 500-stock index than at any time except the late 1990s. That won’t last.

Although index funds offer quite a few benefits, rock-bottom expenses are most significant.

Vanguard isn’t the only place to get a good deal on index funds.

There are plenty of good reasons for owning passively managed funds. But that doesn’t mean index funds are flawless -- or harmless.

One mutual fund and one ETF focus on dividend growth abroad, while the other mutual fund and ETF go after high-yielding stocks.

Smart-beta funds, which are emerging as alternatives to traditional stock-index funds, are worth a look.