For example, you can buy an index fund based on the Standard & Poor’s 500 Index (S&P 500) of top American companies as either ...

An index fund is a mutual fund or ETF composed to match the composition of a benchmark stock index and mirror its performance. For example, The Vanguard Russel 2000 ETF is composed of the same ...

Examples include mutual funds, which gather money from numerous investors and invest it in a diversified portfolio of assets, and hedge funds, which invest the assets of high-net-worth individuals ...

An example is the Fidelity 500 Index Fund, which is the third-largest U.S. mutual fund in terms of net assets. There are more than 2,100 Fidelity funds specializing in U.S. equities, plus hundreds ...

A sales load is a fee (charged as a percentage of their invested balance) that an investor pays to their broker when they purchase or redeem shares of a mutual fund. When an investor purchases or ...

"For example, the Vanguard 500 Index Fund is available in both ETF (ticker: VOO) and mutual fund (VFIAX) form," says Rodney Comegys, global head of Vanguard's equity indexing group. "Both offer ...

In the example above, the high-priced mutual fund outperforms the index fund on an annual basis. But high-priced mutual funds rarely beat the major market indexes, and the largest mutual funds ...

A great example is SNXFX. This mutual fund tracks the Schwab 1000 Index, a simple yet effective benchmark that market-cap weights the largest 1,000 U.S. stocks. This provides SNXFX exposure to ...