The bigger you are, the easier it gets. This is the main idea behind “economies of scale,” an economic concept that describes how larger companies become more efficient and protect their market ...

Investors can evaluate economies of scale to determine if a company can increase profitability and stay competitive as it ...

Price Wars Periodically, Morningstar publishes a study entitled Global Investor Experience, which evaluates the quality of the world's mutual fund marketplaces. The latest version of the report, ...

Data Crunch: Does size matter? ClearGlass’s Chris Sier digs into the asset classes that offer economies of scales to large or consolidated investors, and explores the possibility that size creates a ...

Whether depository institutions can achieve economies of scale, that is, lower their average costs by increasing their sizes, has been a subject of great interest and importance to economists, ...

What advocates of antitrust reform miss, however, is that the development of technology products for consumers is dependent on considerable investment in research and development (R&D). Breaking up ...

A mutual fund (or exchange-traded fund) is a special version of a corporation, governed by the Investment Company Act of 1940. As Apple AAPL or Exxon Mobil XOM are owned by their investors, so too are ...