Steven Goldberg
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Morningstar Fund Ratings Adopt a Stricter Curve
investing Morningstar is in the middle of revamping its fund analysts' methodology. Can they beat the indices?
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Market Timing: The Importance of Doing Nothing
Investor Psychology Investors, as a whole, actually earn less than the funds that they invest in. Here’s how to avoid that fate.
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Commission-Free Trades: A Bad Deal for Investors
investing Four of the biggest online brokers just cut their commissions to $0 per transaction. Be careful, or you could be a big loser.
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Vanguard Dividend Growth Reopens. Enter at Will.
investing Why you should consider investing in this terrific fund now.
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Are Tech Stocks Nearing Another Bubble Burst?
stocks Don’t buy the chorus of "This time is different."
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5 Top-of-the-Line T. Rowe Price Mutual Funds
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5 Best American Funds for Retirees
mutual funds Until a few years ago, the American Funds family of mutual funds was available to individual investors only through intermediaries such as brokers and advisors.
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Health Care Stocks: Buy Them While They're Down
investing Why this sector should outperform for years to come
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The 5 Best Vanguard Funds for Retirees
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Buy Marijuana Stocks Now? You'd Have to Be Stoned.
stocks Don't let your investment dollars go to pot
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4 Valuable Lessons From the 10-Year Bull Market
Investor Psychology Anything can happen next, so you must be mentally prepared.
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The 5 Best Mutual Funds for a Rocky Market
mutual funds The stock market has given investors a bad case of whiplash over the past few months.
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The 6 Best Vanguard Index Funds for 2019 and Beyond
Index Funds Investing icon Warren Buffett advises investors to stash 90% of their money in a Standard & Poor’s 500-stock index fund and keep the rest in short-term government bonds.
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John Bogle: The Defiant Patron Saint of Index Investing
Index Funds Vanguard founder John C. Bogle died Jan. 16 at age 89. But "Saint Jack," who built the index fund from virtually nothing into a $5 trillion empire and was a boon to individual investors, had already cheated death several times before.
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Value Added: 7 Top Stocks for 2019
investing Making money in the stock market this year is going to take all the skill and luck you can muster.
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The 5 Best Stock Funds for Retirement Savers in 2019
investing The key to picking actively managed funds for the year ahead: Think defense
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Is This the New Bear Market?
Markets The warning signs are all there, and so are the headwinds
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Midterm Elections Loom Over the Stock Market
Politics Divided control of Congress, White House, has historically led to poor returns
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The Bear Market Drought Spoiled Us
Investor Psychology The past 10 years make it look too easy to make money in stocks. Here’s how to prepare for worse times.
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5 Best Actively Managed Vanguard Funds
ETFs Vanguard funds have become synonymous with index investing.
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Retirees: Don’t Overlook Annuities. Really.
investing The immediate fixed annuity offers guaranteed lifetime income
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Just How Pricey Is This Stock Market?
Investor Psychology Let’s put the S&P 500’s P/E ratios under a magnifying glass.
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The 6 Best REIT Funds to Buy
REITs Rising interest rates and the decline of shopping malls have weighed on real estate investment trusts (REITs) over the past few years.
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How to Invest Intelligently: Work Smart, Not Hard
Investor Psychology One of the best things you can do is get out of your own way.
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