Consider parking some or most of your long-term dollars in index funds. They can make life easy, as you won't have to study ...

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 ...

Confused by financial products? Most Americans are. Luckily, you don't need them to build a comfy nest egg. Here's all you ...

From modest beginnings as a method of tracking market performance to a now ubiquitous presence in investor policy statements and portfolios, index investing continues to increase in prevalence and ...

If you’ve consumed any financial media, you might have heard the terms indexing, or index investing, come up. Despite how frequently they are used, I have found that very few people understand what ...

Last year, money in passive funds surpassed the assets in active funds. Many financial advisors might view this as confirming what they have long recognized—there’s a place for passive strategies ...

Investing is about choices. Every investor faces the same challenge: how to grow wealth while controlling risk. Value investing works best for investors willing to wait for fundamentals to assert ...

The share of adult Americans who own stocks is approaching an all-time high of 63%, which may explain why events such as the surge in “meme” stocks like GameStop gets such generous play in the news.

Suppose you sit down with a cup of coffee, log into your investment account, and notice that your portfolio has quietly grown, not because you bought the “next hot stock,” but because you held a broad ...

I often get asked, “What’s the best stock to pick?” When I tell people they need to be selective, they counter with advice they’ve heard: “Just buy all of them through an index fund like VTI.” This ...

Cathie Wood, CEO and CIO of Ark Invest, indirectly took aim at Wall Street’s big three exchange traded fund providers BlackRock, Vanguard, and State Street when she said that the shift towards index ...