Here are the 20 mutual funds with the best total net returns of 2024. To build this ranking, we used Morningstar data that ...

Consider the nearly 3,900 actively managed U.S. equity mutual funds and exchange-traded funds tracked by investment researcher Morningstar. In calendar 2024, just 13.2% of these investments beat the S ...

Leuthold, which has $1.1 billion under management, entered the ETF space in 2020 with the Leuthold Core ETF (LCR), which tactically invests in stocks and bonds. LCR, which has grown to $81 million, ...

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Sustainable investing-focused mutual funds and exchange-traded funds suffered a severe beating in 2024, producing record ...

Morningstar’s head of sustainable investing research, Hortense Bioy, said the election of Trump — who has called climate change a hoax and pledged to repeal President Joe Biden’s signature clean ...

After a two-year drought, US bond funds saw the most new investment last year, with inflows led by big names like Pimco and Dodge & Cox ...

Passive indexes routinely clobber funds actively managed by professional stock pickers. Last year was no exception.

FIXP utilizes the proprietary FolioBeyond Fixed Income Model ("FB Model”), a factor-based, multi-sector fixed income strategy ...

Investors can boost their after-tax returns by pairing assets with taxable accounts or tax-advantaged retirement accounts like 401(k) plans and IRAs.

While the growth of active ETFs brings opportunities, the suitability of active ETFs depends on the asset class, fund strategy and investor preferences ...

For many employees, what to do with a 401(k) plan at retirement has been a foregone conclusion: Roll it over. The opportunity ...