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The Motley Fool April 22, 2004 Selena Maranjian |
How to Save for College College is expensive, no doubt about it -- but you can afford it. |
The Motley Fool January 4, 2006 Tim Hanson |
10 Years to Change Your Life Go from zero to $80,000 by shifting a few financial gears. Here are some retirement options. |
The Motley Fool June 21, 2005 Shannon Zimmerman |
ETF Investors Go Sector-Crazy Select Sector SPDRs draw investors like flies. Should you plunge in? |
The Motley Fool May 24, 2006 |
Are Stocks Risky? Stocks aren't risk-free, but for many they offer the best possible returns. The more you learn, the more you can manage risk. |
The Motley Fool January 26, 2005 Rex Moore |
Juicing the Market's Returns You want to know exactly what actions you should take to finally get your investing house in order. The "Index Plus a Few" is a low-risk strategy with market-beating potential. |
The Motley Fool May 10, 2006 John Reeves |
Build the Best Portfolio Once you've created your portfolio, you'll still have to monitor it -- and rebalance it from time to time. But by doing it yourself, you will have saved thousands of dollars in advisor fees -- and you may discover that you enjoy charting your own financial future. |
The Motley Fool March 16, 2006 Chuck Saletta |
Dueling Fools: Dell Bear Rebuttal Tight margins, premium valuations compared with the market, and a lousy position in the computing value chain make Dell a risky company to own right now. |
The Motley Fool January 31, 2006 Rex Moore |
The Best Retirement Advice When it comes to a comfortable retirement, one factor dominates all others: time. |
The Motley Fool February 10, 2004 Selena Maranjian |
New Exchange-Traded Fund for Dividends A new way to get dividend income. |
The Motley Fool October 31, 2006 Dan Caplinger |
Why Pay for Nothing? From the standpoint of the individual investor, mutual fund fees often go unnoticed. However, they're extremely significant and represent a large handicap for savers to overcome in trying to reach their financial goals. |
The Motley Fool October 2, 2006 |
What to Save for College Though it's better to start early, it's probably not too late to begin saving. |
The Motley Fool June 7, 2011 Morgan Housel |
Searching for a Better Index Going beyond the S&P 500. For those who don't have the time or inclination to dive into individual stocks, index funds are the way to go. |
The Motley Fool August 20, 2009 Selena Maranjian |
Are These Tomorrow's Top-Performing Funds? Looking for the best mutual funds? There's a new fund-rating system in town that lets you look up a fund and see its grade, from A to F, along with its standing according to four different models. |
The Motley Fool October 10, 2006 Jim Mueller |
A Million-Dollar Road Map Turn a couple of dinners a month into wealth. Seriously, you can be a millionaire if you put the right plan in place. And while it starts with saving your dollars, the next step is to start those dollars growing. |
The Motley Fool January 14, 2005 Shannon Zimmerman |
ETF Tip No. 4: Get Smart Why it's smart to own actively and passively managed funds. |
The Motley Fool July 9, 2004 |
The Stock Market Is Risky Learn to take fewer chances when you invest. |
The Motley Fool June 28, 2005 Shannon Zimmerman |
Focus on Fees When it comes to mutual funds, it pays to be a cheapskate. Take a look at the funds you currently own. Are you paying for the "privilege" of underperformance? If so, it could be time for a mutual fund makeover. |
The Motley Fool May 6, 2005 Rex Moore |
Boosting Your Returns "Index Plus a Few" is a low-risk strategy with market-beating potential. |
The Motley Fool January 20, 2010 Dan Caplinger |
Why You Shouldn't Give Up on Stocks Investing is still the best way to build wealth. |
The Motley Fool November 16, 2006 Shannon Zimmerman |
The Secret of Your Success Think you need a ton of money to get going in the market? Think again. Every little bit helps, it's true, but when it comes to growing your nest egg, time can be the secret of your success. |
The Motley Fool April 9, 2007 Selena Maranjian |
The Surprising S&P 500 Learn fun facts about the venerated index, which just turned 50. Many index funds and exchange-traded funds (ETFs) are tied to it. |
The Motley Fool January 16, 2007 |
The Stock Market Is Risky Investing in stocks can be risky, especially if you don't know what you're doing or why you're doing it. |
The Motley Fool September 7, 2006 Selena Maranjian |
Your Retirement Is Going to Stink What you're counting on might not be enough. There are more ways to maximize the money you're socking away for your golden years. |
The Motley Fool February 22, 2007 Shannon Zimmerman |
Making a Million Is Child's Play Grade school math plus time can add up to big bucks in the bank. Here is what savvy stock-picking can do to rev up your retirement road trip. |
The Motley Fool January 26, 2007 Chuck Saletta |
What Are You Waiting For? The longer you wait to start building your retirement nest egg, the tougher it is. |
The Motley Fool December 15, 2005 Selena Maranjian |
When ETFs Are Better Than Funds The bottom line is that sometimes, an index fund will serve you just fine. And other times, ETFs may be best. It also depends on the index fund you're looking at, and the ETF. |
The Motley Fool January 18, 2005 |
A Step-by-Step Investing Plan How to begin and maintain an investing life. |
The Motley Fool August 13, 2008 Chuck Saletta |
Beat the S&P 500 -- Guaranteed! Put a too-often-neglected investing tool, reinvesting index fund dividends, to work for you. |
Entrepreneur January 2006 Scott Bernard Nelson |
World View Seeking a well-rounded portfolio? There's never been a better time to take a portion of your investments global. The simplest solution is to find a good, low-cost international index fund. |
The Motley Fool July 24, 2006 Tim Beyers |
Quit Buying Stocks The key to saving and investing successfully is to earn the best returns possible while keeping within your risk tolerance. So even if you're a dyed-in-the-wool stock jock, it doesn't make sense to ignore the rates your bank is offering. You may be passing up an easy 10% gain. |
The Motley Fool April 9, 2007 Dave Mock |
What to Do When the Market Turns No one knows when or how significant market "corrections" will happen, but all the dire predictions are right on one point -- it will happen sometime. So let's assume a drop is imminent -- what's your plan to deal with it? |
The Motley Fool December 11, 2006 Dan Caplinger |
Index Funds: So Hot Right Now Indexing is stylish, but can you profit from its idiosyncrasies? |
The Motley Fool June 21, 2005 Shannon Zimmerman |
Funds and Fatherhood Mutual funds and Father's Day -- a perfect combination. |
The Motley Fool October 21, 2008 Andy Louis-Charles |
Is Now A Good Time for the S&P? The S&P 500 has recently fallen to levels unseen since the start of the Iraq War in 2003. The question is, are investors better or worse off owning it? |
The Motley Fool March 6, 2006 Bill Mann |
Don't Be a Venture Capitalist! Profitability is the key when combing through the market's small companies. Most people should invest in companies in their earliest stages only after undertaking an extraordinary amount of research. |
The Motley Fool May 1, 2007 Shannon Zimmerman |
A Beginner's Guide to Market Rallies You can still find values during market upswings, and right now is a fine time for newbie investors to hit the market's sales rack. |
The Motley Fool February 26, 2004 Rick Aristotle Munarriz |
10 Most Admired Fortune magazine publishes its list of America's Most Admired Companies. With criteria that stretch across a wide range of attributes, it's not a perfect science. More importantly, because different things make our respective hearts go pitter-patter, it's only natural that such lists are up for some debate. |
The Motley Fool January 9, 2004 |
Alternatives to Index Funds Is it cheaper to choose exchange-traded funds over traditional index funds? |
The Motley Fool April 18, 2006 Tom Taulli |
An ETF for New Stocks IPOs become the latest to join the ETF party. The IPOX-100 Index Fund is essentially a mid-cap index -- with a nice marketing angle. |
The Motley Fool February 7, 2005 Rich Smith |
Tech's Bleeding Edge The tragedy of bleeding-edge companies like the Apple of old is even if, after decades of failure, they ultimately do succeed -- by then, their original shareholders have long departed. |
The Motley Fool August 20, 2008 Dan Caplinger |
If You Can't Beat the Indexes, Join Them As easy as it is to have an all-index portfolio, you may be curious: Is it a good idea? |
The Motley Fool December 9, 2004 Selena Maranjian |
Beware of Lists of Top Funds One danger of investing is the list of top-performing mutual funds that you'll find often in many financial periodicals. Why are such lists problematic? Let us count the ways. |
The Motley Fool October 15, 2008 Selena Maranjian |
A New Way to Battle the Economy Should you defend your portfolio with the new Sabrient Defensive Equity Index ETF? |
The Motley Fool October 3, 2006 Shannon Zimmerman |
If You Could Make Only One Investment ... Looking for ideas? Look no further. Why place all of your hard-earned money on a single horse when you can spread your bets around and sleep peacefully with a top-notch fund? |
The Motley Fool June 20, 2006 Rich Smith |
Foolish Forecast: Featuring FedEx The company reports its fiscal-fourth quarter and full year 2006 earnings tomorrow. Investors, take note. |
The Motley Fool June 2, 2009 Selena Maranjian |
Millionaire-Maker Mutual Funds Let someone else make you rich, while you take it easy. There are many funds with market-beating records that can serve you well. |
The Motley Fool April 6, 2004 Selena Maranjian |
Learn About Stock Indexes For many people, index investing is the best way to get rich. |
The Motley Fool April 19, 2005 Selena Maranjian |
Be a Critic Cast a careful eye upon mutual fund media coverage. |
Registered Rep. June 10, 2011 Stan Luxenberg |
At Vanguard, Active Beats Passive -- Frequently Since John Bogle retired as chief executive in 1996, Vanguard has continued singing the praises of index funds and staying largely mute about the virtues of actively managed funds. |
The Motley Fool April 20, 2011 Jordan DiPietro |
Should You Buy and Hold Southwest Airlines? Does this company have the traits of a good retirement stock? Generally speaking, I like to see a beta below 1.2 for retirees. In this case, Southwest Airlines fits the bill. |