How to incorporate "fun money" into your investment portfolio, while managing risk and tax consequences. A fixed index annuity offers downside protection, but the trade-off is limited upside.

Index funds have gained enormous popularity with investors over the past few decades as a cost-effective way to gain access to highly diversified portfolios. Through mutual funds and ETFs, total ...

The Rasmussen Reports Immigration Index for March increased to 87.6, up more than points from 85.3 in February. The Immigration Index has been under the baseline in every survey since Election Day ...

The fund follows the Bloomberg U.S. Aggregate Bond Index as its benchmark and aims to track its performance via a sampling technique. Instead of replicating the index in full by purchasing all the ...

The ABX Index is an index that represents 20 subprime residential mortgage-backed securities (RMBS). The Index, created by market intelligence firm Markit, is used as a financial benchmark ...

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Please view our full advertiser disclosure policy. The Fidelity 500 Index Fund remains one of the most popular S&P 500 index funds in the U.S. — and for good reason. Its low expense ratio makes ...

He is a Chartered Market Technician (CMT). The Russell Midcap Index is a market capitalization-weighted index comprising 800 publicly traded U.S. companies. It selects the 800 smaller companies ...

This content is created independently from TIME’s editorial staff. Learn more about it. An index fund bundles individual securities into a single investment that tracks the performance of a ...

Index funds are passive investments. They track an index with the goal of replicating the performance of that index, minus expenses. Active funds, meanwhile, are led by managers who choose ...

The Vanguard 500 Index Fund (VFIAX) is one of the best index funds tracking the S&P 500 index. The Invesco NASDAQ 100 ETF (QQQM) is among the best ETFs for the Nasdaq-100 index. MORE LIKE ...