Index Funds

Stock market investors have to be pretty happy about the way that 2012 turned out, with the Dow Jones Industrials (^DJI) rising 7 percent and the S&P 500 (^GSPC) climbing more than 13 percent. But if you wa...

By now, most small investors know that investing in index funds is frequently superior to owning individual stocks or actively managed mutual funds. It turns out, however, there are several ways to squeeze even...

The past 18 months or so have not been very kind to Wall Street insiders and hedge fund managers. These investment gurus almost caused a worldwide economic collapse. Many of them are now out of business. Hedge ...