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Jason Schneider "It's a marketing race," says Matt Hougan , editor-in-chief at IndexUniverse.com, a website that covers the ETF and index-fund business.

The Incredible Shrinking Fee Jonathan Burton 2011

Many plans have added more low-cost index-fund options and changed their portfolio mix, so that the plans become more conservative as students near college, reducing the chance for the kinds of account meltdowns that occurred in during the 2008-09 financial crisis.

Making 529 Plans Work Karen Blumenthal 2012

"It becomes somewhat of a marketing bonanza to say, 'We've got a way to create an index portfolio that does better than the market,'" says Gus Sauter , chief investment officer of index-fund giant Vanguard Group, which oversees some $900 billion in market cap-weighted stock and bond index funds.

Can This Index Fund Beat the Market? Matt Phillips 2011

Some observers see a downside for index-fund investors.

Major Index to Reshuffle Rob Curran 2011

Another big factor: Most target-date funds embrace active stock and bond picking—in which fund managers gamble they can earn back any extra fees they charge investors by posting above-market returns—over a passive index-fund approach that merely seeks to match the market's returns.

Targeting Fees in Target-Date Funds Ian Salisbury 2011

Firms such as Fidelity Investments and Charles Schwab Corp. have cut index-fund fees in recent years and, more recently, have introduced commission-free ETF trading.

Vanguard Opens Gate to Lower Fees Jane J. Kim 2010

Vanguard said it was expanding its index-fund family by introducing the 19 new funds with ETF shares to "provide investors with additional low-cost stock and bond choices."

Vanguard Planning an ETF for S 2010

The recommended index-fund portfolios contain bonds, U.S. stocks, foreign stocks including those from emerging markets and real-estate securities.

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Low-cost passive index-fund investing remains an excellent strategy for at least the core of every portfolio.

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The biggest name among the issues going to the ETF side is the Vanguard 500 Index (trading symbol: VFINX), the granddaddy of the index-fund world.

Fund Companies Jump Into ETFs 2010