A compelling core-plus bond offering with a good price. Our research team assigns Silver ratings to strategies that they have a high conviction will outperform the relevant index, or most peers, over ...

Each of the 10 largest active bond funds beat their category averages in 2025, while six of the 10 largest bond index funds outperformed. PIMCO Total Return Fund and PIMCO Income Fund held the highest ...

Vanguard's Target Retirement Funds generally allow for very low minimums of just $1,000 (compared to $3,000 for most of its other funds) and expense ratios of just 0.08% (which is about a fifth of the ...

Bond ETFs are steadily overtaking bond mutual funds, gaining share in the OEF market as investors favor liquidity and ...

These 11 ETFs offer some fat dividend yields and/or impressive growth.

Source: Morningstar.com, as of Jan. 6, 2026. The first is a classic, ultra-low-fee S&P 500 index fund that invests in 500 of ...

Other professional investors use passive funds as low-cost defensive ballast. While stocks can offer long-term growth, having ...

Risk is Average compared to funds in the same category according to Morningstar. These statistics are calculated from a comparison of a fund's excess returns and its benchmark's excess returns. They ...

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