Carol Geremia, president of MFS, frets that investors care more about beating indexes and benchmarks and less about finding ...

Vanguard Funds is one of the largest mutual fund and ETF financial firms in the world. Vanguard was founded by Jack Bogle, who is considered “the father of index investing”. Bogle has been a ...

Index investing is a form of passive investing Index investors don't need to actively manage their investments as closely since the fund is just copying a particular index.

Passive investing is making market concentration worse, says new research Index funds are great. They give you broad exposure to the entire stock market, maximum diversification, and minimal costs ...

Vanguard founder John Bogle has earned the title, “the father of index investing” due to his pioneering efforts to create Exchange Traded Funds (ETF) that track various market indexes and can ...

Index funds have dominated the discussion for almost 50 years now. What is the role of active funds?

Index funds bundle a basket of securities into a single investment offering steady, low-cost growth. Learn more.

ETFs and index mutual funds both offer a number of advantages for investors. Which type of investment is better for you? Learn more.

An index fund is a grouping of stocks, bonds or other securities. They're designed to mirror the performance of a particular market index — like the S&P 500 or the Dow Jones Industrial Average ...

However, index funds certainly were. Twenty years later, fund shareholders barely noticed their existence. Actively run equity funds held far more assets than did indexed stock funds.

There’s an inherent beauty in simplicity. Enter index funds, a type of investment fund that seeks to replicate the performance of a specific market index.