When ETFs Beat Index Funds

It's a bit of inside baseball in the money management world, but some advisors lean toward using index funds for their clients and some prefer exchange-traded funds (ETFs). We use ETFs at MarketRiders, but we use ETFs that act and work like index funds. These are the widely held ETFs that track the big indexes that make up a portfolio: U.S. stocks, bonds and foreign indexes, as well as commodities and real estate. Why not use index funds instead? Cost. If you own index funds created by your ...