We've been busily working on the November newsletter, and as part of that, I've been pulling together the quarterly "report card" that we regularly run to update members on the performance of the various SMI strategies. I
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What a time to be an investor! Even as market indexes hit higher and higher levels, the overall cost of investing continues to fall.
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Our latest picks for the best investing and personal finance articles from around the web.
How to plan for the unforeseen (NY Times). A little planning ahead can be a big help to you — and your loved
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Perspective is an interesting thing. Many people seem to feel that the world is becoming a worse place by the day. Certainly the things that divide Americans seem more pronounced than they did a decade or two ago. And it's
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SMI's Personal Portfolio Tracker and monthly Fund Performance Rankings report have been updated to reflect mutual-fund performance data current through 9/30/2017. The Tracker and FPR are typically updated monthly between
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In recognition of just how very unscientific personal money management is, University of Chicago Economist Richard Thaler has been named this year’s Nobel laureate in economics.
Thaler is considered one of the founders of
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It's Friday! And time for our heading-into-the-weekend roundup of worthwhile reads on investing and personal finance.
You just doubled your money if you invested at the 2007 market peak (Bloomberg). More evidence that it
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Emotion-driven decisions during a market downturn can harm your long-term financial health.
Preparing mentally before the market drops can help you keep your emotions in check — as SMI Executive Editor Mark Biller
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SMI has frequently discussed what "normal" market volatility looks like. Typically this takes the form of quoting statistics regarding the market averaging a 10% correction roughly once per year, and so on. We feel like
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A couple of "news notes" today about fund-related acquisitions.
First, brokerage firm TD Ameritrade (TDA) has completed its acquisition of Scottrade, as we noted in the October issue of Sound Mind Investing. (Scottrade
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