Total stock funds can also be used in tandem with buying individual stocks. For example, an investor can buy into a total market fund gaining broad exposure to the equity market while ...

For example, if the FTSE 100 Index is at ... "Indexing" is a form of passive fund management. Instead of a fund portfolio manager actively stock picking and market timing—that is, choosing ...

Commissions do not affect our editors' opinions or evaluations. Not every total stock market fund is the same—different funds track different underlying indexes, and they employ varying ...

That kind of outperformance is uncommon — particularly among stock-fund managers. Giroux is able to take a “nimble contrarian approach” that helps the fund “capture pockets of value ...

Investors can buy mutual funds and exchange-traded funds ... You don't want to put all of your eggs in one basket. If the one stock you put all of your savings into collapses, you will be starting ...

The latest edition of The Wall Street Journal Winners’ Circle—a ranking of the top-performing stock-fund managers over the past 12 months—illustrates that trend.

Can’t anybody here play this game? That quote from baseball legend Casey Stengel would apply to the job of stock-fund manager these days. Under the pressure of an uncertain stock market and ...

He may be wrong about that, but he has been right to avoid the stock, which is in the SPDR index fund. It’s down from a high of $484 to a recent $35. Taylor is entitled to an opinion about viruses.