The shrewd investor weighs several factors before making an investment, including costs, risk, and performance. This is no different when it comes to investing in mutual funds. Depending on where you are in life, your investment goals will differ from one person to the next. Having clear set goals will help you pick the mutual [...]
How to Steal the Pros’ Stock Picks
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I’m not ashamed to admit that I steal a stock pick from a hedge fund or mutual fund from time to time. In a universe of thousands of individual stocks, it would take years to do your own sorting – and believe me when I say that reading through the financials of 100+ companies just [...]
Best Investments for Recent Graduates
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Are you a recent graduate? Did you just land your first job, or get some money from the grandparents for graduation? If any of these apply to you, you may be wondering what you should do now. I’ve previously written The College Student’s Guide to Investing, and it has a lot of great information for college [...]
The Trouble with Target Date Funds
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Target date funds have become the go-to investment choice for many Americans. In fact, they are now offered in over 80% of 401(k) plans nationwide. As a result, hundreds of billions has been invested in these funds. Why do Americans like them? Because they have the premise of being simple investments that happen to be [...]
The Top 10 Investors of All Time
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I thought it would be interesting to look at some of the best investors in modern time. These are all individuals who made significant amounts of money by sticking to solid investment philosophies. If you look at their strategies as well, they aren’t very difficult or complex – they stick to basic financials of a [...]
