Passive investing has gained significant traction among Indian investors, largely because of low costs. Exchange Traded Funds (ETFs) and index funds constitute the two main passive investment vehicles. Both replicate the performance of benchmark indices. Since these funds replicate the same companies and weightings as the indices they follow, they require little active management resulting
Attorney General Aaron Frey and Gov. Janet Mills discuss on Friday Maine’s settlement with the U.S. Department of Agriculture over school nutrition funds that were withheld because of alleged Title IX violations. Anna Chadwick/Morning Sentinel The U.S. Department of Agriculture and Maine have reached a settlement in a lawsuit over the agency’s decision to freeze
WASHINGTON — The White House’s proposed budget pitches eliminating Community Development Financial Institution Fund’s discretionary awards. In President Donald Trump’s proposed budget, the White House said that past awards have “made race a determinant of access to loan programs to ‘advance racial equity,’ funded products and services that built so-called climate resiliency,’ and framed American
The Trump administration and Maine reached an agreement that restored funding for schoolchildren, Maine’s attorney general said Friday, part of a feud between the president and the state’s governor over policies on transgender athletes. The state’s attorney general, Aaron M. Frey, said his office had withdrawn a lawsuit it filed in objection to the funding
President Donald Trump signs order to cut PBS and NPR funding President Donald Trump signed an executive order to stop directly funding PBS and NPR. President Trump signed an executive order to defund NPR and PBS, claiming left-wing bias. A Pew Research poll shows more Americans support continued federal funding for public broadcasting than oppose
Voters in Washington will be asked this fall to let the state make stock market investments with payroll taxes collected for its long-term care program. The Legislature has put a measure on the Nov. 4 ballot to amend the state constitution to allow assets of the program, known as the WA Cares Fund, to be handled
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Investors looking to put their money in sustainable areas are being forced to pay higher fees for active funds, due to a “concerning” absence of cheaper, passive vehicles, analysts say. As part of the UK’s
(WBNG) — New York Attorney General Letitia James and a multistate coalition of 20 other attorneys general called on the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services to reinstate Title X funds. Last month, Health and Human Services, or HHS, cut off support for family planning and health care services nationwide without reason, leading to
The federal government’s 401(k)-style retirement savings program followed a familiar trend last month, with domestic investments underperforming their overseas counterparts. The common stocks of the Thrift Savings Plan’s C fund fell 0.68% in April, bringing their 2025 performance to -4.93%. And the small- and mid-size businesses of the S Fund fell 0.78%. Since January, the
Sam Drysdale | State House News Service As President Donald Trump passes 100 days in his second term in office, Gov. Maura Healey says she’s still willing to work with him, but called his administration “a disaster” so far. “I said at the outset that I would work with this administration where it benefits Massachusetts,