An asset allocation fund diversifies investment portfolios across multiple asset classes like stocks, bonds, and cash. Learn ...

Academic finance has uncovered powerful insights, from the efficient-market hypothesis to the Fama-French five-factor model. Unlike proprietary trading algorithms, these breakthroughs are published ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Catherine Brock covers personal finance and investing. Vanguard and Fidelity offer popular index funds with competitive expense ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Catherine Brock covers personal finance and investing. Trying to predict where the market’s headed amid geopolitical unrest and ...

Vanguard’s index funds are the best value in investing. They are very cheap, well-constructed, and reliable. The next-best value might be Vanguard’s actively managed funds. They are cheap, generally ...

Index Funds are solid investment vehicles that track major indices, offering broad exposure to the stock market. They are considered low-risk investment tools as they track broadly diversified indices ...

Index funds are sold as simple, safe, and smart. They are also training people to stop thinking. My stance is clear: overreliance on index funds dulls responsibility, kills cash flow, and funds ...

Ask a beginner retail investor what they think best predicts whether a fund will outperform, and the answers tend to vary. Some point to the long-running dominance of U.S.-focused funds as evidence of ...