I've written increasingly over the past 18 months or so about similarities the current market has with the market of the late 1990s. No two periods are ever exactly the same, but when you've done this long enough you start
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Big political/geopolitical news events sometimes cause investors to get shaky nerves. But such events are rarely a good reason to change your portfolio.
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Even without intentional changes, a diversified portfolio will stray from its initial percentage allocations as some investments perform better than others. The beginning of the year a good time to
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When thinking about how much risk to take to reach your retirement-planning goals, don't focus solely on average expected returns. Consider the full range of past market outcomes, some of which have been
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A common question SMI has fielded over the past 30 years is what is the best way for a person to invest a new lump sum amount. Specifically, what most people are wondering is whether it's better to invest it all at once,
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There are three primary reasons why investors don't get the returns they expect from their portfolios. I'm not talking about when a person makes poor investing choices out of ignorance, or when a portfolio simply
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The market can swing from favoring one category of stocks to another, often with little explanation. And sometimes it can stay "swung" in a particular direction for quite a while.
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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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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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It's risky to try to time the market. And even you could do it perfectly (which you can't!) the upside isn't as great as you might think, as SMI executive editor Mark Biller explained yesterday on Moody Radio's MoneyWise
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