Ask a beginner retail investor what they think best predicts whether a fund will outperform, and the answers tend to vary. Some point to the long-running dominance of U.S.-focused funds as evidence of ...

Daniel Liberto is a journalist with over 10 years of experience working with publications such as the Financial Times, The Independent, and Investors Chronicle. Robert Kelly is managing director of ...

Lucas Downey is the co-founder of MoneyFlows, and an Investopedia Academy instructor. Samantha (Sam) Silberstein, CFP®, CSLP®, EA, is an experienced financial consultant. She has a demonstrated ...

Vanguard index funds kicked off the passive-investing revolution, in which investors try to meet rather than beat market moves for long-term gains. Many, or all, of the products featured on this page ...

This R package can be used to calculate the Open Bodem Index (OBI). The OBI is a tool that evaluate the soil of agricultural fields based on four main criteria: chemical, physical, biological and ...

Abstract: We propose a method that allows the realization of all index generation functions using flexible decomposition charts. It is based on the first-fit decreasing heuristic used by Tarjan and ...