Mary Ellen Klas is a politics and policy columnist for Bloomberg Opinion. A former capital bureau chief for the Miami Herald, she has covered politics and government for more than three decades.

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Index exchange-traded funds, or ETFs, let you own a broad swath or more specific slice of the market while paying very low fees. According to brokerage Fidelity, “There are two basic types of indexes: ...

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A new model based on the famous alien-hunting Drake equation suggests that some parallel universes within the hypothetical "multiverse" could have higher chances of containing extraterrestrial life ...

Index funds are a good passive way to invest in the stock markets. They are minimally cost-associated and mirror the index returns that they underlie, such as NIFTY, Sensex, etc. One of the most ...