The S&P 500 index has long been a cornerstone of many investment portfolios, offering a blend of diversification, historical ...

Skyrocketing valuations have made the tech sector highly represented in the S&P 500. An investment in the S&P 500 is akin to ...

To understand how to invest in an S&P 500 index fund, you’ll first need to know a bit about the underlying index. The Standard & Poor’s 500 index tracks the stock market performance of the 500 ...

S&P 500 index funds and ETFs are a lower-risk, lower-effort type of investment. Getting started early will make it far easier to reach $1 million or more. However, there's one major downside of ...

A number of mutual fund firms, Vanguard and Charles Schwab, to name a couple, are being forced to amend their prospectus ...

The expected S&P 500 rate of return is like the 10-year Treasuries yield, signaling the limited equity investment ...

Sometimes companies booted from the S&P 500 go on to outperform the index. Recent examples include Zion Bank, Lincoln ...

Paul Christopher, head of global investment strategy at Wells Fargo Investment Institute, explains opportunities to invest in ...

But for many investors, S&P 500 index funds remain the overwhelming favorite when it comes to long-term investing. The S&P 500 index tracks the prices of the 500 largest U.S. public companies ...

Goldman Sachs estimated that each percentage-point cut to the corporate tax rate could boost S&P 500 earnings by slightly ...

compared to the SPDR S&P 500 ETF Trust's 0.0945%. On paper, a 0.0645% difference seems ignorable, but when you're investing long term, the difference could mean thousands of dollars. For ...