Building a portfolio around companies with durable competitive advantages sounds obvious until you try to identify which ...

The VanEck Morningstar Wide Moat ETF (MOAT) was launched on April 24, 2012, and is a passively managed exchange traded fund designed to offer broad exposure to the Large Cap Blend segment of the US ...

As the market evolves, and new ETF trends emerge, from private markets and smart beta to active and buffer ETFs, investment teams need to stay ahead of the competition. But they also need the data, ...

When retirement income depends on dividends that actually arrive, sector concentration stops being a flaw and starts looking ...

Behind every great passively managed exchange-traded fund (ETF) is an index. Sometimes, those indexes were contrived to sell ...

FDLS received a 5-star Overall Morningstar Rating for the 3-year period out of 582 Small Blend funds as of 11/30/25. This rating lists FDLS's overall performance as "High" and overall risk as "Average ...

Investors have long been drawn to companies with monopoly-like characteristics — those companies with attributes that make them dominant in their markets with little effective competition. Such firms ...

Looking at long-term, multi-year performance is important for any client considering a stock or fund investment, but ...