After all, "low costs are the primary reason you're investing in ETFs," says Russell Wild, author of Exchange-Traded Funds for Dummies. These funds typically use derivatives to juice returns or ...

For years, mutual funds and exchange-traded funds have been cast as an either/or decision for investors. Mutual funds are expensive, stodgy, yesterday’s news. ETFs are cheap, flashy, hip to the ...

An exchange-traded fund pools a group of securities into a fund and can be traded like an individual stock on an exchange. An exchange-traded fund (ETF) is an investment fund that holds multiple ...