Where Vanguard’s CEO Sees The Fund Industry Going Vanguard CEO Bill McNabb gives his take on the fiduciary rule, pricing for advice, expected market returns, corporate governance, and target-date funds. John Rekenthaler Jun 15, 2016
Morningstar Investment Conference: Practical Advice for an Evolving World Indexing, automated advice, and the new fiduciary standards. John Rekenthaler Jun 14, 2016
Three Keys to Retirement Investing Asset allocation gets the spotlight, but contribution rates count for more, and perhaps costs, too. John Rekenthaler Jun 10, 2016
Revisiting the Many Estimates for Market Returns The dispersion can be rationally explained. Plus, a look at two lawsuits making waves this week. John Rekenthaler Jun 5, 2016
Mass Customization Has Finally Arrived Twenty years later than advertised, but who's counting? John Rekenthaler Jun 3, 2016
What Will Your Portfolio Return? Public pension funds and investment managers have reached very different conclusions in the guesswork that is predicting investment returns. John Rekenthaler Jun 1, 2016
How Should Investors Time Their Investment Strategies? A conversation with Rob Arnott. John Rekenthaler May 27, 2016
3 Lessons From Hedge Funds’ Rise and (Partial) Fall The ups and downs each inform. John Rekenthaler May 20, 2016
Index Funds Are Good Corporate Governors: Who Knew? Chalk up another one for indexing. John Rekenthaler May 17, 2016
Rekenthaler's Sunday Reader Mailbag Morningstar columnist John Rekenthaler tackles strategic beta, choosing a MLP fund and math for 7 year olds. John Rekenthaler May 15, 2016
Hollywood Fibs About Wall Street Which, sadly, some people seem to believe. John Rekenthaler May 13, 2016
Why Strategic Beta Makes Sense And how it departs from other investment 'innovations.' John Rekenthaler May 10, 2016
The DOL's Fiduciary Rule: Better Late Than Never The world leads, the U.S. follows. John Rekenthaler May 6, 2016
Jack Bogle’s Latest: Basic Math The smartest people don’t necessarily run the best funds. John Rekenthaler May 3, 2016
Why Fund Costs Are Dropping Vanguard is a big reason, but not the only one. John Rekenthaler Apr 29, 2016
The Sad Tale of Concentrated Value Funds They need index fund competitors. John Rekenthaler Apr 26, 2016
How Much Do You Pay Each Year in Fund Fees? The answer is worth knowing. John Rekenthaler Apr 20, 2016