Fifteen years of steady investing in a broad stock index can quietly transform a modest lump sum into a serious portfolio anchor. If you had put $5,000 into an S&P 500 index fund around late 2010 and ...

Key Takeaways Jack Bogle said people are best served by keeping investing simple and sticking primarily with low-cost index ...

Confused by financial products? Most Americans are. Luckily, you don't need them to build a comfy nest egg. Here's all you ...

Looking for the best way to track the U.S. large-cap market in your long-term portfolio? See how the top S&P 500 index funds ...

From modest beginnings as a method of tracking market performance to a now ubiquitous presence in investor policy statements and portfolios, index investing continues to increase in prevalence and ...

If you’ve consumed any financial media, you might have heard the terms indexing, or index investing, come up. Despite how frequently they are used, I have found that very few people understand what ...

The share of adult Americans who own stocks is approaching an all-time high of 63%, which may explain why events such as the surge in “meme” stocks like GameStop gets such generous play in the news.

The Invesco QQQ Trust tracks the Nasdaq-100 index, which includes the 100 largest non-financial stocks in the Nasdaq. The ...

Investing is about choices. Every investor faces the same challenge: how to grow wealth while controlling risk. Value investing works best for investors willing to wait for fundamentals to assert ...

Last year, money in passive funds surpassed the assets in active funds. Many financial advisors might view this as confirming what they have long recognized—there’s a place for passive strategies ...

On this episode of The Long View, Bryan Armour, director of passive investment strategies research, North America, for Morningstar Research Services and editor of the Morningstar ETFInvestor ...

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 ...