Mutual Funds

If you’re considering fixed-income investments as a way to diversify your portfolio and target a steady stream of income, you might want to give fixed-income mutual funds a look. Here’s what you need to know.

Your HSA can be used during retirement. Learning about contribution limits, withdrawal rules and tax implications can help you be strategic in deciding how your HSA might fit into retirement planning.

Fake news and misinformation about a company can negatively impact share prices, and even if it’s a temporary price move, investors can get caught flat-footed. Here’s how you can help protect yourself and your portfolio.

Mutual funds and exchange-traded funds incur expenses, which can be passed on to the fund’s investors. The expense ratio, expressed as a percentage, represents the annual fee a fund charges its investors or shareholders.

When your broker or financial advisor recommends that you read an investment or fund prospectus, it’s for a good reason. A prospectus can offer clues to help you assess an investment’s risks.

New to income investing? Learn about three approaches: dividends from equity holdings, interest from bonds and fixed-income securities, and income from a multi-asset portfolio. Each comes with its own potential benefits and risks.

What positive practices in environmental friendliness, corporate governance, and positive employee relations make different companies qualified to be called “socially responsible”?

Learn the basics of mutual funds, the benefits and risks of mutual fund investments, and how to find a mutual fund that aligns with your objectives.

Understanding the basics of a mutual fund. This is a brief mutual fund 101 defining what is a mutual fund.

If you have both taxable and tax-advantaged accounts and can choose which securities are held in which accounts, here are some ideas to help you decide where to invest.

If you’re looking for diversification in your portfolio, mutual funds can help you toward your goals. But the array of choices can be dizzying.

Structural changes in the loan market over the last decade have shifted many loans from the balance sheets of big banks to those of institutional and retail investors. What risks might these loans pose to investors?

Learning to invest can be like learning your way around a new city. Familiarize yourself with things close to home, then branch out.

Considering exchange-traded funds (ETFs)? Understand fit, style, and value before you shop.

ETFs may be used to produce a stream of income, and offer potential benefits of portfolio diversification.

Money market funds typically invest in higher-yield, short-term debt securities. Are they right for you? Learn more here.

Mutual funds are one of the most popular investment choices some people use when seeking to build a diversified portfolio. Find out why and how to pick mutual funds that align with your savings goals.

When deciding whether to invest in ETFs or mutual funds, it may help to know whether you're an active or buy-and-hold investor.

Socially responsible investing, which lets you align your portfolio with your values, has grown in popularity in recent years, bolstered by product innovation. Learn more here.

Your investment decisions could impact your tax bill. Learn about the basic rules and some strategies to help maximize after-tax returns and potentially reduce the amount you owe.

What’s the difference: ETF vs mutual funds? Exchange-traded funds and mutual funds are two avenues chosen by some investors to pursue diversification. Learn more here.

Junk bonds—or high-yield bonds—can be quite risky, but may still have a place in a portfolio.

Growth stocks and growth mutual funds can fit into investment portfolios of people planning to retire in the coming few years, retirement experts say.

Many have heard of “sell in May and go away.” What other seasonal factors, both well known and obscure, are out there and perhaps moving the markets?

The Securities and Exchange Commission is implementing new rules for and reforming money market funds. Learn what this means for money market funds.

In recent years, passively managed index funds have attracted big money flows. What are the advantages and risks of investing in index funds?

Avoid that dreaded all-your-eggs-in-one-basket cliché and look to a bin of mutual funds for diversification.

There’s a way to generate “income” from dead investments, even if they aren’t optionable—how to hedge mutual funds with options.

The rising costs and spotty track record of actively managed funds leads some investors straight to indexing. Others are looking for their stock market savior.

A winning well -thought- out investment plan requires you need to dig deeper to get an edge on the crowd. Here’s a few secondary ways to play big themes.