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...
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.
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.