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When to Sell Your Mutual Fund: 4 Key Indicators
When people say “breaking up is hard to do,” they’re not talking about how difficult it is to say goodbye to a poorly performing investment. But knowing when to sell a fund that’s gone astray is trick
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Top 5 Mid-Cap Stock Funds for Balanced Growth
Getty ImagesIn theory, midsize-company stocks operate in a sweet spot for investors. No longer struggling to get out of the gates, these financially mature firms, led by experienced executives, should
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Top 21 ETFs for 2021: Expert Picks for Potential Growth
Getty ImagesIt would seem a fool's errand to predict the best exchange-traded funds (ETFs) for 2021. After all, 2020 reminded us just how unpredictable the market can be.Fortunately, that's
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Taxable Municipal Bonds: A Rewarding Investment Opportunity
To herald this new decade, I decree that we quit bemoaning the Great Recession and credit crisis of 2008–09 and its many calamities. It happened, it was costly, we learned something about defaults and
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Top 10 Closed-End Funds (CEFs) to Consider for 2021
Getty ImagesA dreadful 2020 for most of the world is mercifully over. But while investors have plenty of hope for 2021, many still have some trepidation. Fortunately, the market's best closed-end
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Top 5 Stock Funds for Retirement in 2020: Performance & Outlook
Getty ImagesWhat a difference a year makes. On Christmas Eve 2018, the S&P 500 closed sharply down, bringing its peak-to-trough losses to 19.8% – just shy of the 20% loss that defines a bear marke
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2019 Stock Market Performance: Kiplinger's Investment Analysis
Who’s complaining about stock market results for 2019? Not us. Investors in U.S. shares easily shrugged off the threats of a growling bear in late 2018 and pushed the market to record highs throughout
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Corporate Debt Risks: Are We Heading for a Financial Crisis?
If debt lights the fire of every financial crisis, as author Andrew Ross Sorkin once observed, then we may have a problem brewing. Companies have loaded up on a record amount of debt in recent years,
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Long-Term Investing: How Staying Invested Benefits Investors
@CHANGYENCHAM (@CHANGYENCHAM (Photographer) - [None]There may be no more common mantra in the investing world than “buy low, sell high.” But study after study shows that investors tend to do the oppos
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RYH: Invesco Healthcare ETF Performance & Election Outlook
Over the past 12 months, Invesco S&P 500 Equal Weight Health Care ETF (symbol RYH) gained 25.3%. That lags the broad U.S. stock market, as measured by Standard & Poor’s 500-stock index, which
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Conspicuous Consumption & Modern Investing: Lessons from the Roaring Twenties
AleutieIt’s the new Roaring Twenties, so let’s call up an authentic voice from the last such era: Thorstein Veblen, an economist and social critic who coined the phrase “conspicuous consumption.” Vebl
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Kiplinger's 25 Funds: 2019 Performance Review & Top Performers
This content is subject to copyright.Almost every major investment category, from bonds to shares in U.S. and foreign companies, had a bang-up year in 2019. How did our Kiplinger 25 funds do? On avera
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Energy Stocks: Opportunity or Overdue Correction?
Value hunters, who buy what other investors shun, are facing a tough decision these days. Although the rest of the market has been surging, energy stocks have collapsed. Is oil over? Or is this an inc
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Kiplinger's Dividend 15: Performance & Yield Update
The past 12 months have been good ones for U.S. stocks, and the Kiplinger Dividend 15—our favorite dividend-paying stocks—have risen right alongside the broad market. Over the past year, the average r
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Political Bias in Mutual Funds: Impact on Your Investments
If there’s anything we’ve learned over the past few years, it’s that there’s a lot of political bias in this country. So maybe it shouldn’t come as a surprise that mutual fund managers are susceptible
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Artisan Developing World (ARTYX): A Promising Emerging Markets Fund
A few months short of its fifth birthday, Artisan Developing World (symbol ARTYX) is youthful by mutual fund standards. But before taking the helm, manager Lewis Kaufman spent a decade managing forei
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Legg Mason LVHD ETF: Stable Income in Uncertain Markets
Low- and minimum-volatility funds become popular whenever nerves start to fray, such as during the near bear market of 2018. Given a potentially combustible U.S. election cycle, 2020 seemed a likely c
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Fidelity Intermediate Municipal Income (FLTMX): Stability Amidst Manager Transitions
The last time we checked in with Fidelity Intermediate Municipal Income (symbol FLTMX), longtime manager Mark Sommer had just retired. Now, Kevin Ramundo, comanager since 2010, is retiring, too, in Ju
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20 Dividend Stocks for a Secure 20-Year Retirement
Getty ImagesOnce upon a time, if you were planning to retire, the traditional wisdom was the "4% rule." You withdraw 4% of your savings in the first year of retirement, followed by "pay
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Top 5 Dividend Mutual Funds with Yields Over 3% - Secure Income for Your Portfolio
Getty ImagesDividend investing is a favored strategy among many investing icons (Warren Buffett comes to mind) because income provides a cushion to your portfolio. When prices decline, a regular divid
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Understanding Stock Puts: A Guide for Options TradersLike any investment strategy, options trading is about finding a balance between risks and rewards. At its simplest, an option is a contract linked to specific securities (e.g., stocks or bonds), g...
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Trump's Election: Economic Outlook and Business ImplicationsEditor’s note: Donald Trump stunned the polls and the pundits to win the 2016 U.S. presidential election. So what will his victory mean for the economy, busines...
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REITs: Investing in Real Estate Through Trusts - A Comprehensive GuideA Real Estate Investment Trust (REIT) is a company or corporation that owns or finances income-generating real estate properties on behalf of shareholders. A REIT is like a holding company for real es...