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The Motley Fool September 12, 2006 Selena Maranjian |
You Don't Need a Million to Make a Million As little as $6,000 a year and some patience can get you there, but if you don't approach your investing sensibly, you could see your nest egg shrink instead of grow. |
The Motley Fool May 13, 2005 Selena Maranjian |
Mutual Funds to Save You If your financial future is shaky, certain mutual funds can save you. Before you invest in any mutual fund, make sure you've studied it well -- either on your own or with some help. |
The Motley Fool April 9, 2008 Selena Maranjian |
Why I Was Wrong, and Then Wrong Again Don't get all excited about a mutual fund based on its performance in a single year. |
The Motley Fool March 14, 2007 Selena Maranjian |
Are You Overdiversified? Learn what you're really getting with an S&P 500 index fund. |
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 January 25, 2005 Selena Maranjian |
Lumpy Results Ahead Don't expect smooth sailing when you're investing. In the short run, the stock market is especially volatile, and your performance over a few months could be a gain of 25%, or a loss of 18%, or something else. |
The Motley Fool June 10, 2004 Selena Maranjian |
Profiting From My Mistakes If you want to make a profit, then do as I say, not as I've done. The author has been investing for a decade now, and she's made her share of missteps along the way. Take time to learn from her mistakes so you can avoid the same pitfalls. |
The Motley Fool June 4, 2007 Chuck Saletta |
Why You Must Invest Now To have a reasonable shot at a golden retirement, you must get started now. The easiest way to get started is with a low-cost, total-market index fund like the Vanguard Total Stock Market Index. |
The Motley Fool March 30, 2005 Tim Beyers |
How I Learned to Invest Anyone can become an investor. If you have the guts to try, here is a plan to help you get started. |
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 December 29, 2003 |
What's a Mutual Fund? It's sort of like an investing club. |
The Motley Fool June 3, 2005 Selena Maranjian |
Reduce Your Investing Risk A few changes in your investing M.O. can improve your performance. |
The Motley Fool July 27, 2006 Selena Maranjian |
Lost Opportunities Regained So what should a busy prospective investor do when she has too many stock candidates and not enough time to do research? Well, for me these days, the main answer has been: Mutual funds! |
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 January 13, 2006 Bill Barker |
The 4 Best Words of Investing Advice "Buy an index fund" is the most actionable, most mathematically supported, short-form investment advice ever. |
The Motley Fool July 6, 2004 |
Seeking Outstanding Mutual Funds Don't settle for below-average performance when you can earn average or better. |
The Motley Fool May 10, 2006 Selena Maranjian |
12 Common Investing Mistakes How many of these blunders have you committed? Just one can derail you: Focusing inordinately on a stock's price... Investing in what you don't understand... Buying and selling too often... Ignoring the power of dividends... etc. |
The Motley Fool August 2, 2006 Tim Beyers |
Meet the Growth Investor Last week, we took a tour of the bargain-hunting world of the value investor. We'll take a U-turn this week and explore what it means to be a growth investor. Who are these thrill-seekers? |
The Motley Fool July 6, 2006 Shannon Zimmerman |
Smart Ways to Get Started A volatile market can provide choice investment opportunities. With that in mind, this commentary begins a three-part series on smart moves that brand-spanking-new investors ought to consider, specifically mutual funds, as they test the market's waters. |
The Motley Fool May 19, 2009 Selena Maranjian |
Schwab Gets Competitive Both the company and its customers can profit from this index fund revamp. |
The Motley Fool November 27, 2007 Adam J. Wiederman |
How to Invest When You're Busy If you're pressed for time, mutual funds may be the perfect investment opportunity for you. |
The Motley Fool July 9, 2004 |
The Stock Market Is Risky Learn to take fewer chances when you invest. |
The Motley Fool January 2, 2004 Zeke Ashton |
New Year's Resolutions for Investors January is a traditional time for resolutions for the New Year. Here are 10 resolutions for investors to help cut down on mistakes, shape up portfolios, and achieve financial goals. |
The Motley Fool August 8, 2006 Shannon Zimmerman |
Beat the Market in Your Sleep Outperform without all that pesky volatility. The Vanguard 500 Index a world-class and dirt cheap S&P tracker that provides quick and easy exposure to such household names as Microsoft, General Electric, and IBM -- has notched an annualized gain of 12%. |
The Motley Fool April 19, 2005 Selena Maranjian |
Be a Critic Cast a careful eye upon mutual fund media coverage. |
The Motley Fool September 1, 2006 Dan Caplinger |
Build Your Own Mutual Fund Buy the same stocks the best fund managers buy. If you identify a fund manager whose style you like, and whose results have been good, you can look at what investments have contributed the most to the manager's success. There are a few different ways of doing so. |
The Motley Fool December 22, 2008 Robert Brokamp |
Jack Bogle on Warren Buffett and Beating the Market The father of index funds chimes in on picking individual stocks. |
The Motley Fool June 15, 2004 Shannon Zimmerman |
Is It Time to Sell? Here's the answer to one of the toughest questions fund investors face - when is it time to move on? |
The Motley Fool April 21, 2005 Rich Duprey |
Poverty to Prosperity Even if you can only put away small amounts of money, you can still retire with a rich man's nest egg. |
The Motley Fool January 5, 2010 Selena Maranjian |
Will This Investment Crush Your Funds? Boring old index funds might be more powerful than you think. |
The Motley Fool January 5, 2005 |
Recommended Reading Here are some books that can turbocharge your investing: The Motley Fool Rule Breakers, Rule Makers by David and Tom Gardner... The Wealthy Barber by David Chilton... One Up on Wall Street by Peter Lynch with John Rothchild... etc. |
The Motley Fool March 14, 2006 Shannon Zimmerman |
Investment Strategery Investors, when it comes to diversification, don't forget about strategy -- especially when investing in mutual funds. |
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 March 9, 2005 Rich Duprey |
Poverty to Prosperity You don't need big bucks to make big bucks. Even if you can only put away small amounts of money, you can still retire with a rich man's nest egg. The secret is small-cap stocks. |
The Motley Fool May 27, 2005 Selena Maranjian |
What Selena Maranjian Is Buying Now Most of us are on the lookout for attractive stocks to buy, and it sure seems sensible to peek over the shoulder of successful investors. But there are downsides to investor tips. |
The Motley Fool September 21, 2004 |
How Are Your Stocks Really Doing? One thing we don't seem to pay much attention to is how our investments are doing compared with the market's averages. If you're not going to take the time to measure your results, consider investing in an index mutual fund. |
The Motley Fool May 3, 2005 Shannon Zimmerman |
A Big Change at Vanguard Indexing whiz Gus Sauter passes the baton. Should you care? |
The Motley Fool April 22, 2005 Selena Maranjian |
Not Your Father's Mutual Fund Funds have changed a lot -- and not for the better. Select carefully. |
The Motley Fool June 15, 2007 Bill Barker |
Tequila, Handguns, and Even Costlier Mistakes How your computer could be costing you thousands of investing dollars by allowing you to take a too active trading stance with your portfolio. |
The Motley Fool July 11, 2006 Selena Maranjian |
All-Star Stocks: Splendid Diversification In the spirit of today's All-Star Game, our own all-star analysts offer a glimpse at their best-performing stocks over the past few years: Best Blue Chip -- Berkshire Hathaway... Best Mutual Fund -- Vanguard Emerging Markets Index Fund... etc. |
The Motley Fool August 27, 2007 Amanda B. Kish |
The Secret of Chart-Topping Funds Whichever fund family you prefer, keep in mind that firms with the greatest success retaining their investment talent are often equally good at generating above-average returns. Dodge & Cox Stock... American Funds Capital World Growth & Income... etc. |
The Motley Fool September 1, 2004 Selena Maranjian |
Mutual Fund Fakery Is your expensive, managed fund really an index fund in disguise? |
The Motley Fool September 6, 2006 Shannon Zimmerman |
Get Off to a Smart Start Just getting your feet wet with investing? We've got a cheat sheet. |
The Motley Fool March 10, 2008 Selena Maranjian |
I'm Bucking the Trend Index funds are gaining momentum -- but should they? |
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 September 21, 2006 Tim Hanson |
This Is Why You Don't Stand on the Sidelines The size of a company has a great deal to do with what you can expect to get out of the stock. ... Specific products aside, big companies don't have big stock moves. Investors, think small to get ahead. |
The Motley Fool February 7, 2005 Josie Raney |
Five Fund Mistakes Avoid these pitfalls if you want a healthy portfolio this year. |
The Motley Fool May 31, 2011 Dan Caplinger |
How to Make the Most From Your Funds Investors make big mistakes with their mutual funds. Here's how to avoid them. |
The Motley Fool September 5, 2006 Kate Ward |
The Best Person to Manage Your Money While there are many well-intentioned money managers out there who genuinely care about their clients, they can be difficult to find. If you do it yourself, on the other hand, you know exactly what you're getting. |
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. |