As with any other investment, you need to do your homework before investing in a mutual fund. Not every fund is a good investment. To separate the wheat from the chaff, your research must look beyond ...

A particularly convenient kind of index fund to invest in is an exchange-traded fund (ETF) -- a fund that trades like a stock ...

Some ETFs generate so much income from securities lending that it fully offsets the fund’s annual fee. Investors should be ...