How REITs Can Benefit a Diversified Portfolio
If you own a house, and your home equity represents a hefty portion of your total assets, you may not want or need any more investments in real estate. But if you’re trying flesh out your portfolio...
View ArticleInvestors Leading a Low Cost Revolution
Shopping around can save you money at the grocery store, the car dealership, and perhaps most importantly, in your investment portfolio. More investors than ever realize that one of the keys to a...
View ArticleDividend Stocks and Younger Investors
Controversy swirls around whether younger investors can benefit from emphasizing dividend-paying stocks in their portfolios—a practice normally associated with retirees. But evidence suggests that no...
View ArticleIRA Contribution Information for 2015
The end of 2015 will be here before you know it. It’s time to start planning now for maximizing your IRA contributions. Late last year, the IRS announced its 2015 retirement plan contribution and...
View ArticleInvestments in Tax-Advantaged Accounts
Tax-advantaged accounts, such as IRAs and 401(k) plans, provide a great way to save for retirement. And if your only investments are in tax-advantaged accounts, then your primary focus should be on...
View ArticleSector Watch: Spotlight on Healthcare
How healthy is your portfolio? Diversifying your investments means more than just owning a lot of different securities. It’s a matter of owning securities that don’t all move together when markets...
View ArticleWhat’s the Best Time for Rebalancing Your Portfolio?
Maintaining the right mixture of assets in your portfolio is important to your long-term investment success. Because some investments go up in value over time, and others go down, experts recommend...
View Article5 Investing Mistakes That Can Really Cost You
When most people think of investing mistakes, they think of buying or selling the wrong stocks, but these five investing mistakes can cost you even more: 1. Contributing Too Much to an IRA This one can...
View ArticlePolitical Shift in White House Unlikely to Clip Stock Market
The stock market loathes uncertainty. And with a presidential election year nearly upon us, there should be plenty of questions facing stocks as a crowded field of Republican candidates and two...
View ArticleWhen Stalking Unicorns, Proceed with Caution
The technology sector is minting billion dollar companies at a rate not seen since the Internet bubble burst 15 years ago. The latest crop of unicorns—investment speak for startups whose valuation has...
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