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Navigating Market Uncertainty: Strategies for Income Investments
As 2018 expires, I imagine you’re resigned to negative returns on most of your bonds and perhaps unhappy that such perennial winners as real estate investment trusts, utility shares and preferred stoc
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Understanding ESG Investing: A Guide to Sustainable Finance
Plenty of companies reflect some of the environmental, social or governance qualities that characterize sustainable investing. Unilever, for example, is lauded for setting a target to be carbon positi
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Top 6 Vanguard Index Funds for Diversified Investing
Getty ImagesInvesting 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. That’s a good
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9 Stocks Favored by Savvy Managers: Investment Insights
Getty ImagesBenjamin Graham, author of The Intelligent Investor, the value-investing bible, likened the stock market to a man with wild mood swings. One day Mr. Market would offer to sell you his busi
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Mutual Fund Trends 2019: Strategies for Investor Growth
Getty Images/HemeraChange is inevitable, as Benjamin Disraeli, the 19th-century British prime minister, once said. He was talking about society. But it’s also true in the nearly $16 trillion world of
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2019 Mutual Fund Rankings: Performance Analysis & Market Outlook
Rocky89Volatility wreaked havoc on nearly all of the world’s stock markets in 2018, posing a challenge for mutual funds. Most major markets posted double-digit declines. A few fell by more than 20%—of
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Navigating Market Downturns: Key Lessons for Investors
Watching your portfolio increase in value is a blast. But watching as stocks decline is far more instructive. The market has recently provided that unpleasant learning experience, and I learned someth
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Discover Alternative Bond Funds: Beyond Traditional Indexing
Last month I promised to discuss bond funds whose managers aren’t hemmed in by allegiance to an index or the ultraconservative viewpoint that Treasury bonds and notes are the center of the universe. A
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Kiplinger ETF 20: Defensive Portfolio Adjustments for Economic Uncertainty
As the specter of an economic slowdown and eventual recession looms, we’re making a defensive shift in our Kiplinger ETF 20 roster (the collection of our favorite exchange-traded funds for a well-roun
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Navigating Market Volatility: Top 5 Mutual Funds for Uncertain Times
Getty ImagesThe stock market has given investors a bad case of whiplash over the past few months. In December, the Standard & Poor’s 500-stock index tumbled 9%. Since then, however, the benchmark
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Fixed Income Performance Review: Did Your Bonds Protect Your Portfolio?
Nicolas Hansen (Nicolas Hansen (Photographer) - [None]Now that the dust has settled on the fourth-quarter 2018 market mayhem, it's time for fixed-income investors to review the instant replay. Di
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Mutual Fund Performance During the 2008 Market Correction: Analysis & Insights
2005 Getty ImagesExperience is a wonderful teacher, which is how we know that many mushrooms are poisonous and that owls make lousy pets. Investors who lived through the September-to-December market c
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Currency Hedging Strategies: Protecting International Investments
It’s been a rough half-decade for international stocks. Over the past five years, the MSCI EAFE index, a proxy for stocks in developed foreign countries, has returned an annualized 2.1%. That return r
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Fidelity Intermediate Municipal Income Fund: Management Transition & Outlook
A changing of the guard took place recently at Fidelity Intermediate Municipal Income fund (FLTMX), a member of the Kiplinger 25, the collection of our favorite actively-managed mutual funds. After ne
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Top 11 Index Funds to Invest In for Long-Term Growth
Getty ImagesThe recent passing of Vanguard founder John Bogle was a great loss for the investment world. Bogle was responsible for introducing index investing to the fund industry, and in the process,
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Protect Your Retirement Savings: Understand Brokerage Account Sweeps
Don't let your broker sweep your cash yield into the basement. Many major brokerage firms in recent years have eliminated higher-yielding money-market funds as a sweep option, pushing customers i
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Managed Payout Funds for Retirees: A Comprehensive Overview
Copyright: Andrey PopovManaged payout mutual funds, which are designed to help retirees generate regular portfolio paychecks, are like the electric cars of the retirement industry: They seem so promis
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Vanguard Launches First Actively Managed ESG Fund with Low Fees
In another sign that sustainable investing is here to stay, Vanguard announced it would launch its first actively managed fund with a focus on environmental, social and (corporate) governance characte
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Tax-Free Income: Top 9 Municipal Bond Funds for Investors
Getty ImagesAnyone looking to tamp down their tax bill for next year need look no further than municipal bonds. They’ve been around for decades, but many people still aren’t familiar with this particu
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Top 9 Investment Funds for a Strong Market
Getty ImagesThe stock market appears poised to at least make a run on the all-time highs set in 2018. The Standard & Poor’s 500-stock index gained 13% during the first quarter of 2019 alone and ha
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- Budget 2018-19: Impact on Mutual Funds & Equity Markets - Understanding LTCG
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Savings Account Opening Checklist: Required Documents & InformationOpening a savings account is a quick and easy process. In most cases, you can do it from your home. To make the process even easier, make sure you have all the documents and information needed to ope...
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Top Bitcoin Forex Brokers: Find Reliable & Hassle-Free TradingBitcoin is reinforcing its ground with the bright prospect. Do FX trading with the best bitcoin to have financial advantages. However, you need the top bitcoin forex brokers for unique hassle-free d...
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Emergency Housing Assistance: How to Apply for Low-Income ProgramsTough financial times contribute to difficulties many low-income people have meeting the cost of housing. As a result, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development and state and municipal orga...