In recent years, shareholders have become smarter fund shoppers. But too many still buy and sell at the wrong times, says Don Phillips, Morningstar’s managing director.
Considered by some to be a latecomer to the ETF party, Vanguard yesterday beefed up its exchange traded fund and mutual fund offerings. The company that made its reputation with low-cost indexed investments said it will launch 19 new index funds...
Oriented to small and value stocks, DFA has rocked and attracted assets. Will DFA be a victim of its own success?
DFA is much loved. But it's not the only successful family of passive funds out there.
Dimensional Fund Advisors (DFA) is riding high. At a time when many investors are abandoning actively managed stock funds, DFA’s passive portfolios have been attracting a steady flow of cash.
Despite a despotic regime and a big stock market gain last year, bulls are running rampant.
There is a strong case for using top active funds. Some of the best large blend managers take less risk than the benchmark.
During the rough markets of the past decade, Marathon Value Fund (MVFPX) the fund returned 6 percent annually during the ten years through April 13, outdoing 97 percent of its large blend competitors.