A wave of private equity accessibility in 401(k)s is supposedly a breakthrough – “democratizing” returns once exclusive to ...

Mitra is a service platform that helps investors trace inactive and unclaimed mutual fund folios. It is an abbreviation for Mutual Fund Investment Tracing and Retrieval Assistant.

Funds that track market indexes have historically offered investors a cost-effective and efficient way to gain exposure to the performance of a market benchmark or index. "Traditional" market indexes ...

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As much as the mutual fund industry preaches the benefits of buy-and-hold investing, it's alarming how prone the industry is to pulling the rug out from under investors' feet. The fact is, mutual ...

Some funds that offer to double single-stock moves have veered sharply off course from the shares they track.

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 ...

The iShares 1-3 Year Treasury Bond ETF (SHY) provides exposure to short-term U.S. Treasury securities. With a market ...

Gold prices are dropping, prompting interest in gold investments. Investors can choose between Gold ETFs and Gold Mutual ...