Three firms dominate the target date fund market, constituting an oligopoly. One firm – Vanguard – owns 72% of the passive TDF market, constituting a monopoly. Oligopolies and monopolies are bad. They ...

Investopedia contributors come from a range of backgrounds, and over 25 years there have been thousands of expert writers and editors who have contributed. Somer G. Anderson is CPA, doctor of ...

Retail market structure refers to the number of companies that sell similar or identical products in the same geographical area. An oligopoly describes a small group of companies that collude to raise ...

As markets mature, they trend toward oligopoly or even outright monopoly. There isn’t much difference, because an oligopoly has several members instead of just one. Examples include electric power ...

As a small-business owner, you're probably an avid reader of financial and economic news. And like many of your colleagues, you probably scratch your head over some of the headlines you read about ...

How does one reconcile a belief in the power of economic dynamism — that it takes “maximum competitive intensity” in business to really drive growth and innovation — with a deep skepticism that what ...