If mutual funds didn’t exist today, would they have to be invented?” asks manager John Neff of the Akre Focus mutual fund. “I think the answer is very uncomfortably ‘no.’”Neff plans to convert the $11 ...

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 ...

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 ...

"Better" is a relative term. To determine what is best requires some context. Exchange-traded funds, or ETFs, are what the name describes. They are essentially mutual funds that trade during the dayon ...

Unlike mutual funds, ETFs trade on a stock exchange and can easily be bought or sold with a phone call. Their management fees ...

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 ...

Neuberger Berman Short Duration Income ETF (NBSD) offers a multi-sector, short-duration fixed income strategy after ...