Warren Buffett consistently recommends S&P 500 index funds for average investors despite his own success as a stock picker.

Actively managed stock ETFs are suddenly taking in new assets from investors while index funds see outflows. That’s a big ...

The S&P 500 is the best barometer for the U.S. stock market because it tracks 500 large domestic companies that form the core ...

Benefits of index funds Types of index funds Equity index funds, or stock index funds, track stock market indexes, such as the S&P 500 or Nasdaq-100. Many equity index funds are broad, such as ...

Vanguard Industrials Index Fund earns an Average Process Pillar rating ... in order to hold each stock in approximately the same proportion as its weighting in the index. The portfolio is ...

The Fund seeks to track the performance of a benchmark index that measures the investment return of the overall stock market. The Fund employs an indexing investment approach to track the ...

The Fund seeks to track the performance of a benchmark index that measures the investment return of stocks issued by companies located in emerging market countries. The Fund employs an indexing ...