Stocks have posted six straight weeks of higher prices, pushing the S&P 500 Index above its long-term trend-line and breaking through the pattern of the past two years where significant new highs were inevitably met within
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Exchange-traded funds, or ETFs, are becoming increasingly popular with investors — and for good reason.
SMI executive editor Mark Biller explained the attraction of ETFs yesterday on Moody Radio's MoneyWise Live. Mark
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If you want a steady stream of retirement income that's guaranteeed to last for the rest of your life, you have three basic options, according the Center for Retirement Research at Boston College (there are other options,
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Our latest picks for the best investing and personal finance articles from around the web.
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Clever graphic from Slope of Hope blogger Tim Knight:
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New SMI members are sometimes confused by an apparent disconnect between what our articles seem to be saying and what our investment portfolios are actually doing.
This typically happens because all of SMI's portfolios
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SMI's Personal Portfolio Tracker and monthly Fund Performance Rankings are now available with performance data updated through Oct. 31, 2019.
The Portfolio Tracker: The Tracker can personalize SMI's fund rankings to your
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Here's the weekly Roundup — a day early this week becuase we'll be posting the monthly Tracker/FPR updates tomorrow. Enjoy!
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The returns of small-company stocks have historically been either roughly equal to, or superior to, those of large-company stocks (depending on the period examined and the studies you choose to focus on).
This has been
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Our latest picks for the best investing and personal finance articles from around the web.
How long will your $1 million last in retirement? (Investor’s Business Daily). Working through the numbers step by step.
An
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