Low-cost index funds mean more of your money can grow instead of being eaten up by fees. Find out which cheap index funds are the best to invest in.

With that in mind, here are five of the safest Vanguard funds to own in a volatile market. When applicable, we'll let you ...

The Federal Reserve’s rate cut will reduce investor returns, yet money market funds remain a good deal, our columnist says.

Stock Market Basics: When we think of investing, four common terms often come up - shares, bonds, mutual funds, and ETFs. Each of these options works differently, carries its own level of risk, and ...

Srivastava: Index funds are no different than your actively managed funds from an investment horizon perspective, so the longer the investment horizon, the better it is, especially for a core ...

The stock market continued to rise in the third quarter, with index funds outperforming and a more mixed bag for active funds. The JPMorgan Large Cap Growth Fund ranked highest among the largest ...

There’s no doubt that the 400 richest Americans are coming off a very good 12 months — but over the last decade, they would have done even better had they invested in a broad-market index fund. This ...

The Vanguard S&P 500 ETF dethroned the longtime champion SPY by offering the same investments at a third of the cost.

A trading floor at index-fund pioneer Vanguard in 2019. (Ryan Collerd for WSJ) As of June 30, index-fund assets made up about 1/3 of the total fund assets in the U.S., according to fund tracker ...

FTSE StepStone Global Private Market Indices combines StepStone’s proprietary and institutional-grade fund-level data with FTSE Russell’s indexing expertise, to deliver one clear, daily index series ...