Category: Mutual Funds
I recently highlighted a few different alternatives to stocks and low-interest cash savings. One of the options I mentioned was a money market fund (also known as a money …
At a recent social gathering, I was introduced to a pediatric surgeon – a younger guy, probably in his early 30s. We got to chatting about what we do …
After many years of data collection, passively managed index funds have outperformed their actively managed mutual fund counterparts. A large part of that is the significantly lower fees they …
In response to my active vs. passive investment fund performance post, a reader, Heidi, wrote in with a question, How do I know if my vanguard funds are “passive”? …
Despite terrifying actively managed fund results like this, “84% of large-cap funds generated lower returns than the S&P 500 in the latest five-year period and 82% fell shy in …
Vanguard recently announced that over the past six months, they have reduced expense ratios for 200 fund and ETF shares amounting to aggregate savings of about $215 million. That’s …
The reputation of passive investing through index funds and their ETF counterparts has been pristine in recent years. Only one out of every four active funds topped the average …
This article on online brokerage accounts has been updated for 2024. This is the second of a multi-part series on how to invest online outside of a 401K. The …
