Growing your wealth with individual stocks requires extensive research and comes with considerable risk. A mutual fund allows you to pool your money with other investors to buy stocks, bonds and other ...

Over the 10 years ended December 2024, the average dollar invested in U.S. mutual funds and ETFs returned an annualized 7%, ...

You may owe tax on mutual funds, even if you haven’t sold your shares. Here's an overview of how taxes on mutual funds work, plus strategies to minimize what you owe. Many, or all, of the products ...

The three main differences between index funds and mutual funds are management style, investment objective and cost. Index funds tend to be the clear winner over the long term. Many, or all, of the ...

When most investors consider leading asset manager Fidelity, they think of tactical approaches designed to beat the market. For example, Peter Lynch — enough of a legend to support an article such as ...

Should You Invest in Small-Cap Mutual Funds or Exchange-Traded Funds? Before adding a small-company stock fund to your investment portfolio mix, make sure you don’t already have plenty of exposure to ...

Dividend stocks are the Dolly Parton of investing: Everyone seems to like them. Many retirees rely (at least somewhat) on the regular income that dividend stocks generate. Nonretirees, meanwhile, ...

Friedberg is a former investment portfolio manager, university finance instructor and author of three books including "Personal Finance; An Encyclopedia of Modern Money Management." Her work has been ...

So you're looking for top-rated AI mutual funds to cash in on the current gold rush into artificial intelligence without buying individual stock? After reading, you'll know which funds have a proven ...