Learn how index funds invest in market indexes like the S&P 500 for broad diversification and market performance replication.

VCSH stays a Hold as yield curve steepening favors longer-dated corporates; Fed cuts and macro trends support rotating out ...

For the quarter, Voya Intermediate Bond Fund marginally underperformed its benchmark, the Bloomberg US Aggregate Bond Index, ...

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 ...

It's not exactly a new trend, but more hedge fund-like strategies continue to be launched as ETFs, promising investors returns uncorrelated to traditional stock and bond market indexes. For investors, ...

Mutual funds remain one of the most widely used investment vehicles because they make it easy to diversify across hundreds or ...

Income-seeking investors should consider increasing interest rate risk, or duration, in the bond portion of their portfolios while minimizing additional corporate credit risk. It had been easy to ...

The U.S. stock market has become so concentrated that even broad index funds are no longer well diversified, our columnist says.

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Unlike corporate bonds or Treasurys, most municipal bond funds pay income that's exempt from federal income tax, and certain variants may also be exempt from state or alternative minimum tax. While ...

The insurance-linked securities (ILS) fund sector finished 2025 on strong footing with December seeing the third-highest ...