The U.S. News Best Mutual Fund rankings combine expert analyst opinions and fund-level data to rank over 4,500 mutual funds. Rankings reflect a variety of popular fund rating systems which track ...

Commissions do not affect our editors' opinions or evaluations. A first-rate mutual fund portfolio is diversified. It holds funds focusing on U.S. stocks and bonds as well as international securities.

These five mutual funds offer investors exceptional management talent across investment strategies and asset classes. From Fidelity Contrafund's growth expertise to PIMCO Income's fixed-income ...

Best S&P 500 Index Funds to Buy Now S&P 500 index funds are a staple of many portfolios, representing a key asset class: ...

Choosing a fund—whether an exchange-traded fund (ETF) or a mutual fund—involves a bit of analysis, but it doesn’t have to be complicated. Here, we make the process easy by giving some simple ...

A mutual fund is a financial vehicle that pools money ... every component of an index but merely aims to get an appropriate sample of every piece in order to effectively track the index's ...

A mutual fund allows you to pool your money with other investors to buy stocks, bonds and other securities. Because mutual funds typically involve a larger number of asset types, they diversify ...

This year, Wall Street is observing the centennial for one of investing's most critical and ubiquitous vehicles: the mutual fund. OK, technically, mutual funds have existed in some form since the ...

Mutual funds are often described as a basket of stocks or bonds managed by a professional with shares of the portfolio made available for purchase by investors. At the end of each trading day ...

The fund holds a sample of stocks that represent the CRSP ... Vanguard hasn’t been immune to investors abandoning actively managed mutual funds for low-cost exchange-traded funds.