Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Catherine Brock covers personal finance and investing. Can index funds make you a millionaire? The answer is yes, but there are ...

While index providers and index fund managers play different roles, they are equally important to the index investing landscape. As index investing likely continues to grow, it will be important for ...

Like many indexes, the S&P 500 is market capitalization-weighted, which means the greater the size of the company, the more ...

Adam Hayes, Ph.D., CFA, is a financial writer with 15+ years Wall Street experience as a derivatives trader. Besides his extensive derivative trading expertise, Adam is an expert in economics and ...

If you’ve consumed any financial media, you might have heard the terms indexing, or index investing, come up. Despite how frequently they are used, I have found that very few people understand what ...

From modest beginnings as a method of tracking market performance to a now ubiquitous presence in investor policy statements and portfolios, index investing continues to increase in prevalence and ...

Consider parking some or most of your long-term dollars in index funds. They can make life easy, as you won't have to study ...

Do you invest in index funds because you want a passive, low-cost approach to investing? If so, you may want to take a closer look at your index fund. The indices these funds track sometimes make ...

Index funds, which usually see a larger participation by retail investors, have seen a staggering 270% growth3 in AUM in the ...

Index investing in India is effectively a momentum strategy that captures stocks only after their strongest growth phase has ...