Navigating choppy markets
“Market sell-offs attract headlines, making stock markets look important. Sound bites from purported experts fill the airwaves. Though it is understandable to think that all the front-page
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Those Who Persevere Are Rewarded
Over more than 40 years of providing investment counsel to corporations, endowments and individual investors, I’ve learned that one of the keys to successful investing is to avoid the
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On February 11, the S&P 500 closed at 1,829, its lowest point since the all-time high of 2,131 set last May. As Mark reported, there was no follow through on the downside the next day, meaning the market stopped short of
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This week’s picks for the best investing and personal finance articles from around the web.
As stocks gyrate, it’s time to measure your risk tolerance (NY Times). There’s nothing like a little volatility to reveal your
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“Free” is a very powerful incentive.
In one of the more amusing examples of the power of free, in his book, “Predictably Irrational,” Dan Areily described an experiment in which college students were offered their choice
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I cringed a bit when I saw this MarketWatch headline on Friday: "The Dow’s downtrend is now official." There are a few reasons the headline is problematic.
First, no one is in a position of authority to make formal
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There is no bear alert signal to report this week.
The S&P 500 briefly dropped below the trigger level yesterday, the first time that has happened in these declines stretching back to last August. But to generate an
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SMI's Personal Portfolio Tracker and monthly Fund Performance Rankings report have been updated to reflect data current through 1/31/2016. The Tracker and FPR are updated monthly between the 10th-13th of the month,
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This week’s picks for the best investing and personal finance articles from around the web.
Drawing a line on ‘enough’ (Financial Advisor). After two brothers decided they had enough, their impact grew exponentially.
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It's been over 17 years since I decided to join Austin at Sound Mind Investing. At the time, I wasn't very familiar with investment newsletters. I remember that one of the primary "objections" I had to overcome in deciding
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