Manuel Schiffres
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Mutual Fund Rankings, 2016
investing Not one domestic stock fund category finishes 2015 in the black.
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How to Prepare for the Next Bear Market
investing Stock corrections are inevitable, but there are ways to minimize the impact.
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Mutual Fund Rankings, 2015
investing Mutual funds loaded with health care stocks rise to the top of our annual rankings.
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How to Pick the Best S&P 500 Dividend Stocks
investing The index is home to multiple companies with attractive yields.
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The 20 Top-Performing ETFs -- and Why You Shouldn't Buy Them
ETFs The winners list is filled with all sorts of funds that most of us have no business owning.
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Why Stocks Keep Plunging and What to Do Now
Markets The news is glum on several fronts, but the prospects for a recession remain slim. It’s important to stick with your plan.
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How to Survive the Next Stock Market Correction
investing The secret to keeping your investment portfolio intact during a big sell-off is planning ahead and avoiding panic.
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Mutual Fund Rankings, 2014
investing Stock funds shine again in our annual rankings of top-performing mutual funds.
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It’s Time to Add Apple to the Dow
Markets There’s no good excuse for keeping America’s biggest company out of the iconic industrial average.
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Stay the Course During Market Volatility
investing Don’t allow recent financial market gyrations to buffalo you into making too-hasty moves.
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Lesson From the Crash of 1987: Buy-and-Hold Investing Works
investing Had you bought into the stock market immediately before Black Monday, you'd still have earned nearly 9% a year along the way.
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Bye Bye, Bear Market
investing Outsize three-year mutual fund returns are no longer dragged down by the 2008 stock market crash.
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Kiplinger's Stock Market Update
Markets We're raising our forecast for 2012 gains, but there are plenty of risks.
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SEC Chairman Mary Schapiro: Make the Markets Fair
Markets In an interview with Kiplinger editors, Uncle Sam’s top securities cop discusses what her agency is doing -- or would like to do -- about money-market funds, mutual fund fees, high frequency trading and other issues.
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Artisan's Yockey Sees a Better Year for Foreign Stocks
Foreign Stocks & Emerging Markets The veteran manager of Artisan International is loading his fund with multinational companies that benefit from growing wealth in Asia.
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A Strange 2011 for the Kiplinger 25
Kip 25 Our favorite no-load fund picks included a few winners, but most of our domestic stock funds delivered returns in a narrow range that trailed the market slightly. One other positive: We had no disasters.
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Dodge & Cox Sticks with Its Strategy
Kip 25 Despite a few recent hard years at Dodge & Cox, the Kiplinger 25 funds' managers remain confident in their long-term approach.
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Why Apple Without Steve Jobs Is Still a Buy
investing Even after the visionary's passing, the stock is extraordinarily cheap for a company that has produced such dazzling results.
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The Eclectic Strategy of a Winning Fund Manager
investing Steve Romick, manager of FPA Crescent, shares his approach to investing, top stock picks, thoughts on the economy and more.
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Amazing Apple
investing The company continues its rapid growth, but its shares remain relatively cheap.
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Kiplinger 25 Funds Run Up with the Bull Market
Kip 25 Our favorite no-load, stock mutual funds give a stellar performance in the two years since the market's bottom in March 2009.
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Amana Funds: Making Money the Islamic Way
investing We speak with an Episcopalian and a Muslim who run two funds that have trounced the markets.
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Baseball Fan Buys a League of His Own
business Software entrepreneur Bob Duff of Fairfax, Virginia, purchased an adult hardball league, for the love of the game.
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Patience Really Pays
investing The longtime manager of Fidelity Low-Priced stock tells how he built his fabulous record and how he's reacting to wild markets.
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