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 ...

Most of the largest active and index stock funds that outperformed their peers had greater exposure to tech. The best-performing large active name was the American Funds Fundamental Investors Fund.

VATICAN CITY, Feb 10 (Reuters) - The Vatican bank has joined with Morningstar to launch two new equity indexes for stocks ...

Exchange-traded funds are cheaper, more tax-efficient and more flexible. But don't put mutual funds out to pasture quite yet.

This article discusses some of the best index funds right now.

A new Morningstar report, The Role of Semiliquid Funds in Portfolios, argues that private market allocations through ...

Older adults likely began their investing careers before exchange-traded funds existed and have stuck with traditional mutual funds. But as retirement approaches, many investors look at their ...

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 ...

CHICAGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Morningstar, Inc. (Nasdaq: MORN), a leading provider of independent investment insights, today announced it has entered into an agreement to acquire the Center for Research ...

The fund underperformed the MSCI ACWI ex-US Growth Index but outperformed the Morningstar Foreign Large Growth peer group ...

Most investors treat broad market funds like a set-it-and-forget-it decision. But what if your core equity position could be engineered to favor companies with stronger balance sheets, higher ...