“If mutual funds didn’t exist today, would they have to be invented?” asks manager John Neff of the Akre Focus mutual fund.

Investors and retirement savers who want to own broad swaths of the stock and bond markets often face a choice: Do they want to buy time-honored mutual funds, or upstart exchange-traded funds? If ...

(NewsNation) — Mutual funds and exchange-traded funds are types of investment vehicles available to investors. While they can be similar, there are some differences that you should know as you build ...

Unlike mutual funds, ETFs trade on a stock exchange and can easily be bought or sold with a phone call. Their management fees ...

"Better" is a relative term. To determine what is best requires some context. Exchange-traded funds, or ETFs, are what the name describes. They are essentially mutual funds that trade during the dayon ...

Over the past few years, the conversation among investors has often revolved around one question: should you invest in ...

"It doesn't take but one comment or one market-moving data point to cause ETFs to shift the market pretty considerably," said Ajay Thomas, head of public finance at FHN Financial.

The federal securities agency is close to approving ETF share classes for mutual funds, with 65-70 asset management firms.

After years of steady decline, the average fee investors paid for ETFs settled at 0.16% in both 2023 and 2024, according to Morningstar’s new 2024 Annual U.S. Fund Fee Study. Conversely, fees for ...