Index funds are mutual funds that seek only to mirror the performance of an underlying stock market index — not to outperform it. Millions of investors hold them in their portfolios because they ...

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Reviewed by Gordon Scott Fact checked by Betsy Petrick Key Takeaways Mutual funds are pooled investments managed by a fund management professional.Exchange-traded funds (ETFs) represent baskets of ...

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Investors and retirement savers who want to own broad swaths of the stock and bond markets often face a choice: Do they want to buy time-honored mutual funds, or upstart exchange-traded funds? If ...