If you're 10 or more years away from retirement, how do you fix a retirement portfolio that's been broken by recent investment conditions? If...
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If you've read any of my columns on investing, you know I'm a dedicated "passive" or index investor. I believe that a diversified...
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Yesterday, the Commerce Department reported that the U.S. economy grew at an annual rate of 3.5% during the third quarter, after declining in five of...
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Because we celebrate Columbus Day today, I thought I'd look at this controversial figure from an investment standpoint. Maybe we can learn something...
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The price of gold hit an all-time high today at $1,049.70/ounce. But that's not as good as it seems: the inflation-adjusted high price is actually...
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People who believe in actively managed mutual funds (or in actively managing their own investments) argue that, in a down market, a manager (or they)...
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In his 2007 book The Black Swan, Nassim Nicholas Taleb popularized the concept of a black swan event – something that couldn’t be...
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If you want investment success, you need an investment policy statement (IPS) and you need to stick with it. Think of an IPS as your "north...
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I had lunch yesterday with my long-time friend and private money manager Gary. One of his nicknames is the "flittering moth" because he...
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As an investor, it might be hard to know what to believe these days. On the one hand, you read headlines like the one from msn.com columnist Jon...
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