It's not easy to beat the S&P 500 index. Most professional investors don't, even though they charge an arm and a leg for managing your money. Ironically, you don't need some fancy, complex trading ...

If you're saving and investing for retirement and you want to do well -- without having to become a stock market expert and top-notch analyst -- look to simple index funds. These track a particular ...

The number of complex investment strategies available to investors has never been greater. But most investors are probably still best served by a few simple, market-cap-weighted index funds. One of ...

The Vanguard Tax-Exempt Bond ETF (VTEB) is a simple muni bond index ETF. VTEB's holdings have extremely low credit risk, moderate interest rate risk, and its dividends are tax-exempt. On the other ...

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Investing is a fascinating world, deep with layers of knowledge and understanding that can sometimes be intimidating. But successful investing doesn't have to be complex; it can be simple, perhaps ...

Each of these should serve you very well over the long term, in part due to their low fees. The SPDR ETF has the highest expense ratio (annual fee) -- only 0.095%, meaning you'll pay just $9.50 per ...

The table above tells you a lot. Clearly, the first fund, a simple S&P 500 index fund, has an impressive growth rate. But in large part, that's because there have been some boffo years recently. Over ...

There are many S&P 500 index funds to choose from, most with ultra-low fees. Each will have you invested, to a degree, in most of the U.S. economy. You can amass millions via simple index funds and ...

Start with a proven all-purpose foundation. Strategic, industry-specific positions can make sense as long as they’re truly proven for the long haul. One particular blue-chip dividend index has ...