The popular fund house that John C. Bogle built manages some of the best-known broadly diversified stock funds, bond funds and balanced portfolios. Forbes Advisor has built our listing of the best ...

You’d be hard-pressed to tell the difference. The two perform almost in lockstep, earning nearly the same return in the end. What closet index fund is this? It’s not any one fund. It’s a composite I ...

The small-cap Russell 2000 index is benefiting from the U.S. government's focus on domestic industries.

In investing, there's no need to invest in individual stocks to achieve strong returns over time. Don't get me wrong. I own about 40 different individual stocks and completely believe it's possible to ...

Long-term investors on Fidelity's brokerage platform can find value with low-cost index funds and possible outperformance with active funds.

U.S. colleges and universities would, collectively, be $468 billion richer today if they had fired their investment managers 20 years ago and instead invested their endowments in low-cost index funds.