Learn the difference between a money market account and a mutual fund. This article discusses risk, return, fees, investment time horizon, and more.

The industry is awaiting SEC approval for dozens of applications, even as Vanguard's shareholder case highlights some of the ...

Stock mutual funds: Stock funds own baskets of publicly traded companies. ... But if you're looking for a mix of stocks and bonds, that might mean managing those positions yourself.

Asset managers are eagerly awaiting an S.E.C. decision that would allow mutual funds to also trade as E.T.F.s — potentially ...

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 ...

Some mutual funds are passively managed, meaning that they're index funds. Others, however, are actively managed, where the fund manager tries to beat the index, ...