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The Motley Fool January 28, 2008 Brian Lawler |
A Great Way to Recession-Proof Your Portfolio If you want a recession resistant portfolio, invest in large cap pharmaceuticals. |
The Motley Fool February 3, 2011 Dan Caplinger |
How Investors Beat the Great Recession A simple strategy brought many back to even. Many investors use asset allocation strategies to spread their risk across various types of investments. |
The Motley Fool December 9, 2010 Dan Caplinger |
Why Mega-Cap Stocks Are Not Enough Before you jump into the biggest, most popular index funds that are based on the S&P 500 index, think twice. |
The Motley Fool January 20, 2006 Doug Short |
Competing With the S&P 500 If you want to increase your chance of beating the S&P 500 year after year, one good way is to broaden your investment choices to include a generous mix of smaller caps and international equities. Mutual funds and ETFs offer an easy means to get that degree of breadth. |
The Motley Fool November 16, 2006 Selena Maranjian |
The Best ETF for 2007: iShares Dow Jones Select Dividend Wondering what exactly is in the iShares Dow Jones Select Dividend Index? Wonder no more. It invests in the 100 (or so) highest-yielding companies in the Dow Jones U.S. Total Market Index. |
The Motley Fool September 7, 2010 Jordan DiPietro |
Investors Are on the Verge of Disaster In the frenetic craze to find security for their portfolios, investors are jumping on the bond bandwagon, despite terrible returns. |
The Motley Fool February 25, 2010 Amanda B. Kish |
Vanguard's Bogle Backs Buffett Is buy-and-hold investing dead? Vanguard founder Jack Bogle thinks not. |
Financial Planning June 1, 2012 Craig L. Israelsen |
Valuable Property It turns out that giving real estate a place in your overall portfolio is an essential step toward optimal diversification. |
The Motley Fool January 13, 2007 Doug Short |
Beating the S&P 500 If your portfolio gained less than 15.8% last year, perhaps it's time to think outside the box. |
The Motley Fool October 13, 2011 John Rosevear |
Dividends to Beat a Crazy Market When the market's seas get rough, seek the safe harbor of solid dividend stocks. |
The Motley Fool October 15, 2010 Andrew Bond |
Dow Back Over 11,000! Who Cares? The Dow Jones industrial average does not give a good read on the overall economy. |
Registered Rep. August 1, 2006 David Prokupek |
Shelter From the Storm Today's market -- with rising interest rates, significant volatility, few sectors providing positive performance and solid global economic expansion -- bears striking resemblance to the 1970s. So, what are an advisors and investors to do? |
The Motley Fool January 6, 2011 Amanda B. Kish |
How to Get Your 124% Return on Investment Stock markets may be rising. |
The Motley Fool January 31, 2008 Claire Stephanic |
Safe Stocks During a Downturn Why consumer-related dividend-paying stocks can keep you out of the poorhouse in a recession. |
The Motley Fool October 20, 2011 John Rosevear |
Protect Your Profits With This Essential Strategy Too many investors overlook this simple approach -- and get burned as a result. |
The Motley Fool August 27, 2010 Jared Cummans |
Worried About Fixed Income Bubbles? Try a Dividend ETF For investors fearful of the bond market, we outline several ETF options to beat the fixed income bubble. |
The Motley Fool June 16, 2010 Nate Weisshaar |
You Wasted the Past 10 Years of Your Life If you're interested in preventing your investment portfolio from languishing for another decade here's how to avoid wasting the next 10. |
The Motley Fool April 25, 2011 Cindy Johnson |
It's Time to Sell Your Small-Cap Stocks Large-cap valuations are unusually attractive. |
Financial Advisor June 2010 Marla Brill |
ETF Tune-Up The middle of the year is a good time to re-evaluate ETF portfolios and do fine-tuning. |
The Motley Fool February 2, 2009 Selena Maranjian |
Why the Dow Makes Little Sense Don't pay so much attention to this oft-cited index. |
The Motley Fool April 27, 2011 Dan Caplinger |
3 Ways to Overcome Your Retirement Doubts Most people think they can't retire. Here's why they're wrong. |
The Motley Fool October 10, 2008 |
What to Do With Your Money Right Now Advice from a panel of Fool analysts on stocks, risk, saving, and diversification |
The Motley Fool February 3, 2011 Amanda B. Kish |
How Does a 1,000,000% Return Sound? Buy and hold is the key to big returns. So exactly what investment has managed to post a 1 million percent return? Look no further than the Pioneer Fund. |
Real Estate Portfolio May/Jun 2006 Steve Bergsman |
Indexes: An Investment Strategy or Investment Benchmark While real estate index fund investing remains a niche play, the number of individual funds continues to expand, which means conservative investors or those investors seeking to reduce volatility associated with actively managed funds have more options from which to choose. |
The Motley Fool February 23, 2010 Amanda B. Kish |
Are Advisors Making Smart ETF Choices? It looks like many of them are jumping on the bandwagon. |
The Motley Fool April 14, 2010 Amanda B. Kish |
The Coming Investment Trend You Should Avoid Tough times see investors trend towards bonds, but stick with stocks for super-performance over the long-term. |
The Motley Fool December 30, 2008 Dan Caplinger |
Can You Beat Index Funds in 2009? Get the right mix in your investments. |
The Motley Fool October 6, 2010 Amanda B. Kish |
More Top Investments for Your Retirement Cover your retirement bases with some familiar fund names: Vanguard 500 Index... State Street Global S&P 500 Index... American Funds EuroPacific Growth... PIMCO Total Return... American Funds Growth Fund of America... |
The Motley Fool August 9, 2006 Bill Barker |
The Optimistic Prediction of Warren Buffett Now might be a great time to get into the market. But, as is always the case -- and certainly as the past seven years have reminded us -- we approach this as long-term investors. |
Financial Planning February 1, 2011 Craig L. Israelsen |
Consistency Matters What have we learned from analyzing four decades of asset class returns? Just this: An equally weighted, multi-asset approach to building investment portfolios is the model of consistency through booms and busts. |
The Motley Fool August 22, 2011 Amanda B. Kish |
How to Lose Money in a Volatile Market Unless you want to lose a lot more money from trying to time the market, don't flee stocks when the going gets rough. |
Entrepreneur July 2007 Scott Bernard Nelson |
Play It Safe There's plenty of room in your portfolio for stocks - but to ride the wave of market volatility, diversify with bonds, too. |
The Motley Fool October 31, 2007 Claire Stephanic |
The Looming Economic Collapse Many Americans are pessimistic about the U.S. economy. The only way to ensure financial stability through a recession or bear market is to have a plan. Here are some tips about where to begin. |
The Motley Fool October 5, 2009 Alex Dumortier |
What's Next for Stocks? After the best quarter since 1998, what can you expect, and how should you react? |
The Motley Fool November 10, 2009 Alex Dumortier |
The Dow's New High Signals Change Is the shift to quality beginning? This high could be symbolic of a shift in the market away from lower-quality/higher-risk names to higher-quality stocks. |
Financial Advisor August 2009 Marla Brill |
Small-Cap Bounty Small-cap ETFs have grown in number and offer some interesting choices. |
The Motley Fool October 5, 2010 Dan Caplinger |
7 ETFs for the Perfect Portfolio You don't need a lot of flash or bling to invest smart. |
The Motley Fool March 12, 2009 Dan Caplinger |
Bring Your Portfolio Into the 21st Century Keeping a simple approach, the Global Dow includes 150 companies from around the world. About 40% of its value comes from U.S. stocks; the rest is split mainly among Europe, Japan, and emerging markets. |
The Motley Fool May 24, 2010 Amanda B. Kish |
How Much Debt Is Too Much? Finances around the world might affect how you divide stocks and bonds in your retirement portfolio. |
Financial Advisor October 2010 Marla Brill |
Comeback Kids REIT ETFs have staged a strong rebound after a nearly two-year drubbing of real estate stocks that drove prices down by as much as 60%. |
The Motley Fool October 1, 2009 Selena Maranjian |
Cast the Biggest Net for Profits Building a strong portfolio doesn't have to be hard. If you pick wisely, you can do it with just a few index funds. |
BusinessWeek November 13, 2006 Roben Farzad |
Dow 12,000: Whoop-De-Doo The market's best-known benchmark keeps rising, but investors are underwhelmed. They might want to take another look. |
The Motley Fool May 12, 2011 Amanda B. Kish |
Can You Retire on $75,000? Some tips to pump up your nest egg. |
The Motley Fool April 30, 2007 John Rosevear |
Why 13,000 Doesn't Matter How much should we care about the grand old Dow? Is this classic index really worth the attention it gets? |
The Motley Fool July 9, 2010 |
The 5-Minute Guide to Allocating Your Assets How to choose between stocks and bonds, small caps and large caps ... our Rule Your Retirement team created these three model portfolios, which you can use as a starting point for cooking your own investment soup. |
The Motley Fool August 12, 2010 Amanda B. Kish |
3 New ETFs Worth Buying Here are three new ETFs worth a second look. |
The Motley Fool October 5, 2010 Matthew Brown |
Diversify or Die During the recent market crash, diversification made the difference between those who got crushed and those who lived to fight another day. |
The Motley Fool May 19, 2009 Selena Maranjian |
Schwab Gets Competitive Both the company and its customers can profit from this index fund revamp. |
Financial Advisor April 2009 Marla Brill |
Tapping ETFs Dividend-rich ETFs may boost returns when the market is treading water. |
The Motley Fool October 19, 2009 Selena Maranjian |
Is Your Index Fund Behaving Stupidly? You don't have to settle for investment allocations in your funds that you don't like. |