The widely followed Standard & Poor’s 500 Index is the standard by which stock market performance in the U.S. is often measured, as it tracks 500 of the largest and most stable publicly traded ...

Index funds track financial indexes like the S&P 500, allowing broad market investment. Low expense ratios in index funds make them a cost-effective investment choice. Investing in index funds offers ...

Shauna Croome was one of the earliest financial content contributors when Investopedia opened in 2002. She was fundamental in growing the site to become the leader in financial literacy. Shauna held ...

Taylor Tepper covered banking, investing and pretty much everything else in personal finance for more than a decade, with his work appearing in the New York Times, Fortune and MONEY magazine, as well ...

South Africa’s economy has been muted over the past decade, with GDP increasing by an average of only 0.7% over the ten-year period. Several structural constraints on the supply side of the economy, ...