Exchange-traded funds can be purchased and sold like individual stocks during open-market periods and can experience price ...

Perhaps the most obvious difference is how investors trade ETFs and mutual funds. ETFs trade like stocks: Investors buy or sell them on a stock exchange. By comparison, mutual fund investors transact ...

Both ETFs and mutual funds allow you to invest in a basket of securities — such as stocks or bonds — within a single investment. Both are taxed on capital gains and dividends and both are subject to ...

For a taxable account, there are typically tax advantages of an ETF over a mutual fund with a similar objective. But merely always choosing an ETF, or even an index fund, over a managed mutual fund ...

If mutual funds didn’t exist today, would they have to be invented?” asks manager John Neff of the Akre Focus mutual fund. “I think the answer is very uncomfortably ‘no.’”Neff plans to convert the $11 ...

If you own mutual funds, year-end payouts can trigger a surprise tax bill — even when you haven't sold the underlying investment. But some lawmakers want to change that. Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, ...