It’s back! After a five-year hiatus, Morningstar’s Fund Family 150 Digest is back to help investors evaluate the largest fund families in the US. The 2024 edition illustrates the ways the asset-management industry is evolving through topics like exchange-traded fund exposure, alternative fund offerings, and women portfolio managers. It also features classic due diligence considerations…
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CNN — President Donald Trump announced a complete three-month pause on all the “reciprocal” tariffs that went into effect at midnight, with the exception of China, a stunning reversal from a president who had insisted historically high tariffs were here to stay. But enormous tariffs will remain on China, the world’s second-largest economy. In fact,…
Over the past 12 months, the Morningstar US Growth Index boasted a return of 21.49% versus 14.56% for the Morningstar US Value Index. Given the sizable performance gap between the two styles, many (including Morningstar’s chief US market strategist David Sekera) argue that value stocks currently look like a better opportunity than growth stocks.“Investor enthusiasm…
The 60/40 portfolio is back at all-time highs after a tumultuous stretch that started in 2022. The Morningstar US Moderate Target Allocation Index, which resembles a typical diversified balanced fund, has gained more than 6.3% for the year to date through mid-June, and despite continued pessimism from some market observers, the outlook isn’t as grim…
Large-growth funds posted strong gains in 2024, thanks partly to the artificial intelligence boom. Despite slipping in December, the average large-growth fund beat the broader market last year.To screen for the top-performing funds in this category, we looked for those with the best returns over the last one-, three-, and five-year periods. Among large-growth funds,…
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A version of this story first appeared in CNN Business’ Before the Bell newsletter. Not a subscriber? You can sign up right here. London CNN Business — For decades, crude oil has been at the center of global commodities markets. Demand has served as a crucial metric of economic health, and price spikes have had…
Dividend stocks are the Dolly Parton of investing: Everyone seems to like them.Many retirees rely (at least somewhat) on the regular income that dividend stocks generate. Nonretirees, meanwhile, enjoy “getting paid to wait”—collecting regular income from quarterly dividends while holding on for stock price appreciation.Looking back at 2024, the returns of the Morningstar Dividend Yield…
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London CNN — Gold prices hitan all-time high Monday, buoyed by growing expectations of interest rate cuts among investors, a weaker dollar and geopolitical tensions. Prices for the yellow metal jumped as much as 3% in Monday trade to reach $2,135 per ounce, rising above the previous record of $2,072 notched in August 2020. Prices…