Q: After a succession of botched attempts at picking individual stocks, I am ready to try exchange-traded funds, which you and other commentators recommend so strongly. Can you suggest a reference ...

Over the past 10 years the number of Exchange Traded Funds (ETFs) has more than doubled and in that same time period 1, assets in exchange traded funds have increased by nearly seven times 2.

Exchange-traded funds, or ETFs, are quite popular among American investors. An estimated 16.1 million Americans—about 12% of U.S. households—held $6.5 trillion in ETFs at the end of 2022 ...