Cambria Investment’s Faber tells MarketWatch how he makes shareholders money by owning high-quality, dividend-paying stocks ...

No one disputes that an actively managed bond fund has the potential to beat a buy-and-hold ... In other words, active bond ...

In that spirit, let's discuss two companies that meet those criteria: HCA Healthcare (NYSE: HCA) and Vertex Pharmaceuticals ...

That's the main reason for the surge in popularity of cheap "passive" funds (those which aim to track the market using mechanical methods, rather than beat it using expensive managers).

The Vanguard Information Technology ETF ( VGT 0.39%) more than doubled the gains in the S&P 500 over the last decade, and the ...

Learn how to choose an index fund while considering cost, diversification, and performance. Ideal for first-time investors ...

This underscores how challenging it is for most funds, whether actively managed or index-based, to outpace the broader market. It's possible to find exceptions—funds that have beaten the SPDR S ...

Despite this influx, fund managers remain hesitant to deploy most of the capital into assets that could be potentially overvalued. According to market experts, holding cash allows them to pause ...

active investing — where fund managers try to beat the market's returns — held sway. Over time, index funds that seek to simply match the rise and fall of the broader market have proved more ...

meaning fund managers follow an investment strategy to buy and sell a variety of securities in an attempt to beat the market. There are funds that focus on nearly every part of the market ...

Fidelity ZERO Total Market Index Fund earns a High Process ... The measure indicates the percentage of a firm's funds that survived and beat their respective category's median Morningstar Risk ...

He is a Chartered Market ... funds' long-term performance is still generally below that of passive funds. The 2019 version of the same study found that, from 2009 to 2019, only 23% of active ...