NEW YORK (AP) — As if the worst year for stocks in nearly a decade weren’t bad enough, many investors now have to pay a tax bill on top of it.

The headache for investors is a result of how mutual funds are structured and how many times the funds’ managers bought and sold shares through ...

DENVER (AP) — William H. Gross, the famed and colorful bond investor who once controlled the world’s largest mutual fund, is closing his professional career of more than 40 years and retiring to focus on managing his personal assets and private charitable foundation.

Gross, 74, was ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Forty years ago, the thought of buying a stock index fund was ridiculed. Why would anyone be satisfied with an investment that promised nothing more than the same return as the market?

Later this year, however, U.S. stock index funds may for the first time control more in ...

VALLEY FORGE, Pa. (AP) — John C. Bogle, who simplified investing for the masses by launching the first index mutual fund and founded Vanguard Group, died Wednesday, the company said. He was 89.

Bogle did not invent the index fund, but he expanded access to no-frills, low-cost investing in ...

VALLEY FORGE, Pa. (AP) — When he lost his job running a mutual fund company after stocks tanked in the early 70′s, John C. Bogle decided that money managers knew very little about predicting the market — and charged way too much for that lack of knowledge.

He founded a new fund company, ...

NEW YORK (AP) — The past year felt dismal for investors. Even worse, the gloom was all-encompassing.

Mutual funds of all types sank. Even those funds that are typically steadier during turbulent markets struggled through what became the worst year since the Great Recession for many ...

NEW YORK (AP) — For holders of bond funds, the Federal Reserve is providing a reminder that even those buttoned-down, conservative investments carry some risk.

Bond prices fall as interest rates rise, and the Fed raised its benchmark interest rate by another quarter of a percentage point ...

NEW YORK (AP) — More and more retirement savers have their entire 401(k) account in just a single mutual fund, and investment advisers are fine with it.

Last year, for the first time, more than half of Vanguard’s 4.6 million retirement account participants were invested in a single ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Being cheap pays off when it comes to fund investing, and more investors are heeding the call.

Investing is full of uncertainties, as the gyrations of the past few months attest, and keeping costs low is one of the few things that investors have within their control. Plus, ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Brace yourself before checking how your funds performed in the first quarter, which officially ends Saturday. Many likely lost money.

After a years-long stretch when most mutual funds and exchange-traded funds powered higher quarter after quarter, investors are ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Brace yourself before checking how your funds performed in the first quarter, which officially ends Saturday. Many likely lost money.

After a years-long stretch when most mutual funds and exchange-traded funds powered higher quarter after quarter, investors are ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Last year was a terrific one for nearly every stock investor as markets kept soaring higher. It was even better for one group that’s among the most maligned on Wall Street.

Mutual fund managers who pick stocks have fallen out of favor after years of underperforming funds ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Why is just one of every 10 managers at the helm of U.S. mutual funds a woman?

Many reasons may be behind the disparity, but researchers at Morningstar say they have disqualified one as a possibility: performance. After measuring how 11,272 funds have fared since 2003, the ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Decades after she began investing, Diana Casey for the first time put money in mutual funds that favor companies with women in corner offices and otherwise aim to invest in a socially responsible way. Her inspiration? President Donald Trump.

A 49-year-old lawyer, she was ...

NEW YORK (AP) — The end of the year can mean tax headaches for some mutual-fund investors, this year potentially more so than others.

Companies have started to warn investors of distributions they’ll make by the end of December. For anyone with a fund outside a tax-advantaged account, ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Utopia is still in effect for fund investors.

Funds of all types again powered higher in the third quarter, as stocks and bonds around the world rose in unison. Not only did investors get strong returns from their funds, they also got them with remarkably few headaches ...

NEW YORK (AP) — It’s easy to get lulled by the gentle and seemingly unstoppable ride higher that investors have been enjoying with almost all their funds. But it can’t last forever.

Greg Davis, the new chief investment officer at investing giant Vanguard, isn’t predicting when the next ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Take a bow, investors. It’s never been cheaper to invest in funds, and it’s largely because of you.

Investors are increasingly heeding experts’ advice to seek out lower-cost funds in their 401(k) accounts and other portfolios. And because so much money is massing in the ...

NEW YORK (AP) — It took a while, but investors are beginning to believe this bull can fly.

One of the greatest runs for the stock market in history is marking its eighth anniversary, and this time investors are joining the party. They’re putting more dollars into mutual funds and ...