ETFs are traded like stocks, allowing buying/selling throughout the trading day. Mutual funds are priced at net asset value at the end of each trading day. ETFs offer better tax efficiency than mutual ...

Mutual funds and ETFs offer investors similar advantages, but there are a few key differences. Many, or all, of the products featured on this page are from our advertising partners who compensate us ...

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 ...

Exchange-traded funds (ETFs) and index funds both offer a straightforward way to diversify your investment portfolio. Both fund types can have low fees, though index funds often charge less. You may ...

Mutual funds and exchange-traded funds, or ETFs, are both investment products, and every investment category may contain a few lemons. Some can quietly drain your returns or create complications that ...

The surging popularity of passive investing has left active asset managers scrambling. That’s the headline story, but it’s not the whole one, as we’ve detailed in recent issues of Morningstar magazine ...

At the end of November 2025, the SEC formally approved the first applications for mutual fund complexes to offer an ETF share ...

Both ETFs and index funds track the market, but differences in costs, liquidity and access can shape your returns.

Are the active equity exchange-traded funds that traditional mutual fund families have been launching to keep investors from leaving for other firms’ ETFs forestalling or hastening the demise of their ...