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September 21, 2015

Getty Images The ingenuity of the securities industry is truly remarkable. Players in it seem to have a special expertise for creating a seemingly endless supply of complex investment vehicles. Almost all of ...

When Should You Choose Active Over Passive Mutual Funds?

September 18, 2015

Alamy These days, investors hear fewer financial advisers promise they have the stock-picking chops to "beat the market." With memories of 2008 still fresh in people's minds, many advisers, as well as indiv...

5 Reasons Investopedia is Dead Wrong About Index Funds

September 11, 2015

Richard Drew/AP When popular financial sites like Investopedia start bashing index funds, you know the gig is almost up for active management. For years, investors have been bamboozled by fund managers who cl...

ETFs vs. mutual funds: Investment vehicles get ready to rumble

July 17, 2015

Is there a battle royal brewing in the world of investment funds? Exchange-traded funds are suiting up in the locker room, preparing to challenge mutual funds' dominance. A recent report from Deloitte, says th...

5 Offensive and Defensive Funds to Strengthen Your Portfolio

December 14, 2014

Richard Drew/AP Investors are getting more excited about the stock market now that it has fully recovered from the financial crisis and started to set new record highs. But if you're looking to invest now, you ...

Scared of a Market Crash? These Funds Offer a Smoother Ride

July 31, 2014

Zoonar GmbH/Alamy The stock market has gone on a roller-coaster ride lately, with the S&P 500 (^GPSC) having plunged almost 7.5 percent in a four-week span and the Dow Jones industrials (^DJI) falling mor...

3 Questions to Ask Before Choosing Target-Date Funds

June 27, 2014

Shutterstock Over the past few years, target-date funds have been growing in popularity. According to Morningstar's 2014 Target-Date Series Research Paper, estimated net flows in target-date funds tripled f...

Target-Date Funds: Same Dates Can Earn Wildly Different Returns

May 31, 2014

In recent years, target-date mutual funds have grown substantially, with savers investing $55 billion into the funds last year in the hopes of getting easy exposure to every asset class you need for a diversifi...

The Risky Funds Ringing Alarm Bells in 2014

May 2, 2014

Alamy Brokers prodding individual investors into putting their money into certain key kinds of riskier assets are facing a crackdown from U.S. authorities. Frontier funds, which focus on up-and-coming emergi...

Stop Paying Wall Street Extra for Your Mutual Funds

April 30, 2014