Explore how indexing tracks economic trends, supports passive investing, and serves as a benchmark tool for comparing market ...

Goldman Sachs expects European and emerging-market equities to beat the U.S. stock market over the next decade.

Index funds are low-cost mutual funds designed to track the performance of groups of stocks, while 401(k) accounts are ...

Exchange-traded funds are increasingly popular in asset allocation strategies, as they allow broad diversification. Indexed ETFs are tax-efficient and provide an easy way for retirement savers to ...

When index funds first launched in the 1970s, they faced a chilly reception. Critics derided them as “unAmerican” and “settling for average.” When Vanguard launched the first index fund available to ...

The stock market continued to rise in the third quarter, with index funds outperforming and a more mixed bag for active funds. The JPMorgan Large Cap Growth Fund ranked highest among the largest ...

Comparing index funds can help you align your investment goals, risk profile and financial strategy. Key aspects to consider include the cost of managing the fund, how closely it follows its benchmark ...

Most investing debates sound complicated until someone strips them down to the one thing that actually matters. That is what happened when a 21-year-old caller challenged a "Ramsey Show" host on a ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Catherine Brock covers personal finance and investing. Can index funds make you a millionaire? The answer is yes, but there are ...

Personal finance expert Dave Ramsey has long made the case for mutual funds as a wealth-building tool. But with thousands of ...

US Bond Market, as measured by Bloomberg U.S. Aggregate Bond Index, generated 1.10% total return in Q4 of 2025 (0.63% in ...

Wall Street thinks two stock market sectors will outperform the S&P 500 in the next year.