Also called Spiders, they are designed to track the S&P 500, so they give investors a way to invest in the overall market. They were created after the 1987 Black Monday crash to offer a safer way to ...

Exchange-traded funds (ETFs) and index funds both offer a straightforward way to diversify your investment portfolio. Both fund types can have low fees, though index funds often charge less. You may ...

Discover the pros and cons of target-date and index funds. Learn which investment aligns with your goals, risk tolerance, and timeline for better financial planning.

The takeaway is clear: While smaller-cap stocks that don’t qualify for index inclusion (grey dots on the left) have a wider spread in their short interest, there appears to be a “floor” of 1% short ...

Index-tracking mutual funds and exchange-traded funds have a lot of endearing qualities. Many of them pair low fees with a clear set of rules, which has been a big win for investors. But those ...

Navigating the investment landscape reveals a number of ways to categorize equity mutual funds and exchange-traded funds (ETFs), which can be sorted by characteristics such as geography, sector or ...

There's more risk of volatility when honing in on tech stocks, compared to buying a fund that tracks the entire market -- but ...

The growth of options, especially on indices and exchange-traded funds, has become an important market dynamic, according to ...

It’s easier to make a case for using fairly priced, proven active bond funds than it is for stock funds. That’s the upshot of recent research by Morningstar’s Eric Jacobson and Maciej Kowara. In “The ...

With all the noise around stock “picks,” hot sectors, and fancy strategies, there’s comfort and power in simplicity. Index ...

There is a belief that the growth of index funds, which prefer to trade in the closing auctions so they track their index, has led to an increase in market-on-close trading. However, the premise ...