Confused by financial products? Most Americans are. Luckily, you don't need them to build a comfy nest egg. Here's all you ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Catherine Brock covers personal finance and investing. Can index funds make you a millionaire? The answer is yes, but there are ...

If you’ve consumed any financial media, you might have heard the terms indexing, or index investing, come up. Despite how frequently they are used, I have found that very few people understand what ...

From modest beginnings as a method of tracking market performance to a now ubiquitous presence in investor policy statements and portfolios, index investing continues to increase in prevalence and ...

Cathie Wood, CEO and CIO of Ark Invest, indirectly took aim at Wall Street’s big three exchange traded fund providers BlackRock, Vanguard, and State Street when she said that the shift towards index ...

Investing is about choices. Every investor faces the same challenge: how to grow wealth while controlling risk. Value investing works best for investors willing to wait for fundamentals to assert ...

Last year, money in passive funds surpassed the assets in active funds. Many financial advisors might view this as confirming what they have long recognized—there’s a place for passive strategies ...

Recently, I watched Steve Chen from CALLTOLEAP share his approach to investing, and his message resonated with me because it strips away the complexity that scares off so many potential investors.

The share of adult Americans who own stocks is approaching an all-time high of 63%, which may explain why events such as the surge in “meme” stocks like GameStop gets such generous play in the news.

Academic finance has uncovered powerful insights, from the efficient-market hypothesis to the Fama-French five-factor model. Unlike proprietary trading algorithms, these breakthroughs are published ...