Fund fees remain one of the most reliable predictors of long-term investment performance. The Latest While Big Tech drives the S&P 500's performance, investors need broader diversification to meet ...

Adam Hayes, Ph.D., CFA, is a financial writer with 15+ years Wall Street experience as a derivatives trader. Besides his extensive derivative trading expertise, Adam is an expert in economics and ...

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Carla Tardi is a technical editor and digital content producer with 25+ years of experience at top-tier investment banks and money-management firms. Gordon Scott has been an active investor and ...

Vanguard index funds kicked off the passive-investing revolution, in which investors try to meet rather than beat market moves for long-term gains. Many, or all, of the products featured on this page ...

The Daily News Sentiment Index is a high frequency measure of economic sentiment based on lexical analysis of economics-related news articles. The index is described in Buckman, Shapiro, Sudhof, and ...

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 ...

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The Fed revised its dot plot projections to two cuts in 2025, but guidance remains more hawkish than market pricing. We don’t expect Powell to get in the way of a dollar recovery if data allows ...

Index funds track market indexes, automating investments and saving on fees. Vanguard offers low-cost index funds that cover various sectors and global stocks. Investors can start with ETFs or mutual ...