On Feb. 11, the firm unveiled two new bond ETFs designed to provide exposure to the short end of the U.S. Treasury yield curve – the Vanguard Ultra-Short Treasury ETF (ticker: VGUS) and the Vanguard 0 ...

If you don't want to spend hours researching individual investments, another option is to buy index funds — baskets of stocks or bonds that track broad-market indexes like the S&P 500.

The S&P 500 index is offering investors a tiny yield of just 1.2% right now. You can do much better than that with SPDR ...

Since index funds consistently beat active management over the long-run, they are often a more viable option for retirement saving success.

One of the easiest ways to get started investing is through index funds. What we'll cover How index funds work Index investing is a form of passive investing Index investing with a brokerage ...

The Madison International Stock Fund outperformed the MSCI ACWI ex-US index in the final quarter of 2024. Read more here.

It was a banner year for equity mutual funds as most outperformed, as the overall market climbed to record highs.

There are many different types of mutual funds. These are some of the most popular. Index funds Also known as passive funds, index funds match the performance of a benchmark index like the S&P 500 ...

The Mag 7 stocks rose more than 67% in 2024, allowing S&P 500 to post a 25% return, its second consecutive year of 20%+ gains ...

Index funds are mutual funds that seek only to mirror the performance of an underlying stock market index — not to outperform it. Millions of investors hold them in their portfolios because they ...

Investors have responded accordingly. Passive investing has taken off, as low-cost index funds have steadily taken market share and are now more prevalent than their active counterparts.

Did you know that in the past five years, the S&P 500's total return (which includes dividends) is around 100%? The S&P 500's ...