Below, we share with you three top-ranked short-term government bond mutual funds. Each has a Zacks Mutual Fund Rank #1 ...

Index funds are mutual funds that seek only to mirror the performance of an underlying stock market index — not to outperform it. Millions of investors hold them in their portfolios because they ...

A casual glance at investment statistics might suggest that 1968 was a vintage year for mutual funds. Most of them outperformed the market and, overall, the assets of 300 U.S. funds grew a healthy 22% ...

ETFs do in-kind transactions. An in-kind transaction frequently avoids being a taxable event because securities are swapped for other assets of equal value. Mutual funds, conversely, sell the assets ...

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A short-term government bond fund is a mutual fund that is limited by its investment objectives and fund bylaws to invest primarily in short-term obligations of the federal government or its agencies.