Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Many investors achieve their investment goals using just mutual funds because of their breadth of options, relatively low costs ...

Investors and retirement savers who want to own broad swaths of the stock and bond markets often face a choice: Do they want to buy time-honored mutual funds, or upstart exchange-traded funds? If ...

Stocks are more appropriate for investors who can monitor their portfolios and the stock market for opportunities. Mutual ...

Asset managers are taking a variety of approaches to offer their mutual fund strategies as exchange-traded funds. They seek to capitalize on ETF popularity in recent years. ETFs are generally a better ...