Observations on the Market Correction
There’s rarely a good reason for a stock market downturn. I’ve been studying many of the historical bear markets and corrections that don’t get as much publicity as the usual suspects
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When the tide goes out
“A portfolio that gets so scary that you bail out at the bottom is destined to fail. There will always be apparent dangers and steep declines.” – Jeff Miller, encouraging readers of his Dash of
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Our latest picks for the best investing and personal finance articles from around the web — a day early this week because we'll have the March issue of the Sound Mind Investing newsletter for you
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This is a big week for Scottrade customers, which includes many SMI members. If that includes you, beginning at 4:15 p.m. Eastern Time this Friday and running through the weekend, you will not have access to your Scottrade
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Here's our linkfest for a midwinter Friday. Enjoy!
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As the market correction was unfolding early last week, I provided some commentary about what was going on, and Matt dug into the ultimately more-important question of how we should respond to the downturn as individual
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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 1/31/2018. The Tracker and FPR are typically updated monthly between
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Our latest picks for the best investing and personal finance articles from around the web.
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The SMI family lost a good friend this week with the unexpected passing of Tom Hahn.
Many of you "knew" Tom through his frequent interactions here on the SMI site. Tom started with SMI almost at the very beginning — 1992.
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I recently answered a member question about the return of SMI's recommended bond funds so far in 2018. A primary focus of that reply was that, while of course we'd love to always earn great returns from our bond holdings,
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