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Stock Brokers

If you're investing for retirement, use our risk worksheet to help you determine the percentage of stocks you should hold in your portfolio. Stocks come in two principal varieties: common stock and...

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Portfolio Management

Allocating your money among stocks, bonds and cash could be your most important investment decision. That's because asset selection usually has more to do with your ultimate return than the specific...

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Financial Planning Services

Governments and corporations regularly finance their operations by issuing such credit instruments. Municipals, also known as tax-exempts, are issued by state and local governments and are secured by...

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Bond Brokers

You can buy a bond at either a discount or premium to its face value. A "discount bond" sells for less than its face value, or par, which is the price the issuing company or governmental agency will...

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Investment Banking

No-load mutual funds are ideally suited for dollar-cost averaging. There are no sales commissions when you buy, and you can invest a small (or large) amount of money on a regular schedule, even if your...

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Mutual Funds

It's surprising how many people never sit down and think clearly about what it is they're trying to achieve with their investments. Take a page from financial planners, who help clients write an...

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Investment Consultant

Are you prepared for protecting your profit? Here are seven ways to protect your recent gains from a sudden reversal in fortune. We list them in order of increasing complexity.

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Brokerage Firms

Leveraged exchange-traded funds bring new meaning to the unfortunate concept of "heads I win, tails you lose." As the performance of some of these ETFs show, you can bet correctly and still end up...

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Business Consultants

"Ethical" is in the eye of the fund sponsor. The typical socially screened mutual fund avoids companies that profit from gambling, pornography, tobacco, alcohol or weapons. Some funds also award...

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Investments

We present six complex investments you might be tempted to buy and the common sense options you'd be better off choosing. Please read on for more detailed information in the following article.

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Gift Shops

Gifts are appropriate for kids and the people we know well. We have a good idea what they want, and we're not going to disappoint them. But when we don't know what recipients want and we feel obligated...

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Portfolio Manager

As gloom gives way to euphoria, it is worth leaning against the wind a bit and pondering some of the potential risks on the landscape. Here, we outline five of them. Please read on for more detailed...

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Muni Bonds

Attention, income investors: When times get tough, your first inclination may be to move all of your bond money to Treasuries. But entrusting Uncle Sam with your cash isn't the only safe course....

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Investing Classes

Most of us would like to be better investors. Who wouldn't like to make millions off a few good stock picks and retire early? Heck, most of us would settle for being able to pick investments that grow...

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Exchange Traded Funds

As with mutual funds, quantity doesn't mean quality. But ETFs have some advantages you should consider. The main advantage of ETFs is cost: ETFs typically hold expenses down, which means more money in...

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Financial Services Companies

It may be tempting to switch out of an annuity that has lost money over the past several years, but that may be exactly the reason you may want to keep it.

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Mergers & Acquisitions

It's a good idea to leave merger investing to specialists known as risk arbitrageurs. They sort through hundreds of deals like this one, investing in some and avoiding others. A handful of mutual funds...

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Investment Services

You should aim for an average return of 10% to 12% per year on your investments. You won't make it every year, but that's an achievable range if you plan your approach thoughtfully and stick to your plan.

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Antiques Dealer & Fair Market Value

If the dealer recognized the high value of your antique the moment he saw it in your home, then he was taking advantage of you to buy it for so little. (Note, however, that reputable dealers typically...

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Financial Institutions

True, accounts of individual investors may cost more to service than one big institutional account. But that part of the expense ratio is generally broken out separately from the fund's management fee,...

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