According to Morningstar, passive portfolios hold 22 percent of fund assets, up from 11 percent in 1999. Now it is no longer possible to ignore the impact of indexing.
Hedge fund-replicating mutual funds for the retail set are young, but they have demonstrated an ability to limit losses in downturns.
These days, you can quite literally invest in your own future.
ETFs are all the rage, but be careful. Trading volume is key to success.
We provide short summaries and highlight the best chapter in each of these seven hand-selected books.
What happens if everyone buys into index funds? For years Jack Bogle and other proponents of index funds have brushed aside that question.
There's very little real difference between the performance of mutual funds and ETPs in the commodity space, but there's a whole lot of difference in the products' risk characteristics.