Taking the bad with the good
“From Sept. 12, 2008 to yesterday, the S&P 500 is up +185.9%, or +11.08% annualized. Your money nearly tripled in 10 years. [But] from Sept. 12, 2008 to March 9, 2009, the S&P 500 lost
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Sighting: The Case for Actively Managed Funds
In the United States, assets have shifted away from actively managed funds and towards passively managed index funds and ETFs; specifically, less than 8% of the assets in
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Your own behavior may well be the most important factor in your investment success. SMI executive editor Mark Biller explained why yesterday on Moody Radio's MoneyWise Live with Rob West and Steve
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Here's a thought experiment: How would you invest a tax-free $10,000 gift? Put the money in savings? In the stock market? Pay off debt?
Market-research firm OnePoll put the $10,000 question (plus other related queries) to
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Our latest picks for the best investing and personal finance articles from around the web.
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Today I'm going to discuss a fundamental investing distinction between trend-following and predictive strategies. Occasionally I'm reminded that some of these foundational investing building blocks need to be revisited
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Fewer parents of college-bound children are planning to cover all of their kids’ college costs, and those who plan to share the cost are less certain as to how to the bills will be paid. Those are some of the key takeaways
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Here's our weekly roundup of financial news and comment. Enjoy!
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Hurricane Florence appears poised to blast the Carolinas in the coming days, with 1.7 million people currently under evacuation warnings and some 5.4 million covered by various hurricane watches and warnings. It's a
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We've just updated SMI's Personal Portfolio Tracker and also our monthly Fund Performance Rankings to reflect mutual-fund performance data through August 31, 2018.
The Portfolio Tracker is our most popular web tool. It
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