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Fund investing is cheaper than ever, and it’s because of you
Investors are increasingly heeding experts' advice to seek out lower-cost funds in their 401(k) accounts and other portfolios. And because so much money is massing in the cheapest funds, the...
Many women think men are the better investors; they’re not
Many men and women think men are the better investors. They're wrong. After checking how 8 million of its customers did during 2016, Fidelity Investments found that women did better...
Where investors favor humans over indexes: Target-date funds
Last year, investors pulled $340 billion out of mutual funds run by managers who are trying to beat the market. Instead, dollars are flowing into index funds, which are content...
Surprise: Despite dire forecasts, bond funds are doing fine
After turning in their worst quarterly performance in years, bond funds were supposed to keep struggling as the calendar flipped to 2017. But reality, at least so far, has turned...
Where nearly everyone is below average: Investing in funds
It's the world where investors try to pick which mutual funds will beat the market. It sounds great in theory, but the odds of doing it successfully over the long...
Fall, recover, repeat: Munis rebound from sharp drops, again
The municipal-bond market used to be a reliably boring one, full of small cities, state governments and others borrowing to build sewers, roads and hospitals. But in the last decade,...
Nearly half of young adults lack retirement savings, pension
Young Americans with even just $1 saved for retirement are ahead of the pack.
Investment Q&A: Expect less from most everything
Stocks, bonds and most everything in between have delivered strong returns the last seven-plus years, helping to inflate retirement nest eggs and college-savings funds. But don't expect a repeat, says...
Fund manager Q&A: Dividend stocks look better, if not good
Even fans of dividend-paying stocks acknowledge that they're looking riskier, a result of their own success.
Get real: Billions set to pour into real-estate investments
Mutual funds are about to get much more real. A big change is coming in how stock indexes measure the market, one that's likely to push tens of billions of...