Discover the key differences between index funds and ETFs, including fees, trading, and tax efficiency, to decide which investment best fits your financial goals.

ETFs are traded like stocks, allowing buying/selling throughout the trading day. Mutual funds are priced at net asset value at the end of each trading day. ETFs offer better tax efficiency than mutual ...

What’s the difference? Financial advisor Allan Roth argues on ETF.com (of all places) that ETFs are great, but in essence, similar Vanguard ETFs and mutual funds are "simply different share classes" ...

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 ...

The popularity of exchange-traded funds often triumphs over old-school mutual funds among social media-savvy investors. But experts say they both have their place in the financial system. The ...

Trending Now: Suze Orman's Secret to a Wealthy Retirement--Have You Made This Money Move? What Are ETFs and Index Funds? As the Securities and Exchange Commission defines them, exchange-traded funds ...

Mutual funds and exchange-traded funds, or ETFs, are both investment products, and every investment category may contain a few lemons. Some can quietly drain your returns or create complications that ...

The surging popularity of passive investing has left active asset managers scrambling. That’s the headline story, but it’s not the whole one, as we’ve detailed in recent issues of Morningstar magazine ...

The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is on the verge of allowing major changes to the way exchange-traded funds (ETFs) and traditional mutual funds are structured. Specifically, an SEC ruling ...

Are the active equity exchange-traded funds that traditional mutual fund families have been launching to keep investors from leaving for other firms’ ETFs forestalling or hastening the demise of their ...