Kephart: We’re seeing a lot of development there. Rick Rieder came out with an active ETF on the fixed-income side, iShares ...

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Defined outcome ETFs use options to set a floor or 'buffer' to the downside by reducing potential upside, over a specified ...

Baby boomers — the generation on the cusp of or currently living out their retirement dreams — can offer a few good tips when ...

Passive income, as the name implies, means you don’t have to work for the income ... a real estate investing opportunity that you could do part-time and potentially earn significant returns.

Investing in the United Kingdom can be a way to diversify geographically. Using U.K. equity ETFs is potentially a simpler way to gain broad exposure to this market.

An easier and arguably more efficient choice for gaining exposure to this market is through U.K. equity exchange-traded funds (ETFs). These funds are tied to a market where there’s a wealth of ...

But, at its core, SPDR S&P 500 ETF Trust is still just an index fund that tracks the S&P 500 index. On an absolute basis, it remains a fairly low-cost way to do that, too, with an expense ratio of ...

Scott Levine (Schwab U.S. Dividend Equity ETF): Getting paid to do nothing -- like the opportunity available from investing in high-yield dividend ETFs -- is undeniably appealing. But the allure ...

But the ETF market has changed dramatically over the years and, today, investors can easily do better than SPDR pioneering ETF. Unlike index-based mutual funds, which have existed for years ...