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Unconventional S&P 500 Index Funds
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Unconventional S&P 500 Index Funds

Bryan Armour | January 29, 2025

If you’ve held an S&P 500 index fund or exchange-traded fund (ETF) in your portfolio over the past decade, kudos…

What Is Arbitrage? Examples in Investing, Airbnbs and More
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What Is Arbitrage? Examples in Investing, Airbnbs and More

Anton Schutz | January 13, 2025

If you spend time reading about finance topics, you’ve probably have come across the term arbitrage and perhaps wondered what…

Eight Best Stock Funds for 2025
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Eight Best Stock Funds for 2025

Janet Brown | January 8, 2025

The bull market is likely to continue through early 2025, but after two years of double-digit gains and new record…

Is There Too Much Big Tech in Your Portfolio?
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Is There Too Much Big Tech in Your Portfolio?

January 4, 2025

Do you suffer from TMT—Too Much Tech? Even if you think you are diversified because you own index funds, the…

Shrewd Investor: Chinese Stock Rally
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Shrewd Investor: Chinese Stock Rally

Neena Mishra, CFA | January 2, 2025

Chinese stocks are the hot new asset class, despite double-digit losses every year since the end of the Pandemic. The…

Best Money Moves for 2025
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Best Money Moves for 2025

December 20, 2024

This is a year of great opportunity…but also one for caution. The economy is reaccelerating…yet investors will need to look…

6 REITs to Consider Now
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6 REITs to Consider Now

Gregg Korondi, CFA | November 25, 2024

The two-year-old bull market in stocks hasn’t been kind to real estate investment trusts, better known as REITs. This sector,…

Best Vanguard Mutual Funds
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Best Vanguard Mutual Funds

Jeffrey DeMaso, CFA | November 22, 2024

You probably know the Vanguard Group for its lineup of index funds that passively track major indices like the S&P…

Best Stocks for a Trump Stock Market
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Best Stocks for a Trump Stock Market

James Van Geleen | November 20, 2024

History suggests that US presidents don’t wield as much power over the broad stock market as you might think. The…

Best Bond Funds 2025
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Best Bond Funds 2025

Robert M. Brinker, CFS | November 11, 2024

In recent years, many investors have wondered why they should own bonds at all…especially during a brutal bond bear market…

Beyond Ozempic … It’s Time to Invest In Health-Care Stocks
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Beyond Ozempic … It’s Time to Invest In Health-Care Stocks

Michael Taylor  | October 24, 2024

Obesity drugs have mesmerized Wall Street, but the rest of the health-care sector is stuck in the sickbed. Since the…

How to … Get Started Investing In Wine
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How to … Get Started Investing In Wine

Jeff Siegel | October 24, 2024

Tired of investing in stocks and bonds? Want something that has offered higher returns than gold and crude oil in…

Invest Like the Wealthy
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Invest Like the Wealthy

Amy C. Arnott | October 24, 2024

The hot investment class called ­private equity is well-known to big institutions and uber-wealthy families. Now, small investors can get…

The Hard Truths About Investing
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The Hard Truths About Investing

Josh Brown | October 19, 2024

A decade-and-a-half ago, Josh Brown was working a dead-end job at a third-tier brokerage firm, hustling to survive in the…

The Biggest Investment Blunders…and What We Can Learn from Them
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The Biggest Investment Blunders…and What We Can Learn from Them

October 17, 2024

Even the world’s best investors mess up. Back in the 1990s, Warren Buffett bought a small Maine footwear business called…