The heart of our portfolio, Fidelity Spartan Total Market Index, is a simple, low-cost way to own the whole U .S. stock market. The fund tracks the Dow Jones Wilshire 5000, a broad stock index. Its 3,400 holdings include everything from stocks in the S&P 500 t...

In a Barrons interview, Conrad Herrmann, the Franklin Flex Cap Growth funds portfolio manager, who has been at the helm since 1993 and under his watch the fund has sported an impressive record and earned a four-star rating from Morningstar, sees a possible bot...

The paucity of fixed-income exchange-traded funds in the United States has baffled industry observers for some time. Despite representing a market nearly as large as equities, there have been just six fixed-income ETFs available to investors until now. Bar...