Working Mother

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Putting your money to work for you is a wise decision. Pexels The amount of people who simply leave their money in a savings account is staggering. In no way is this the most effective use of your money as your money could be earning more than 1 perc

Business Today

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Unlike Potter Stewart who said, I can't define pornography, but I know it when I see it, the answer to 'how much is too much' continues to elude most boardrooms. What else can explain why the top 10 Indian CEOs were cumulatively paid Rs520 crore in F

Kiplinger

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America is a great country, but the U.S. Constitution doesn't guarantee always-rising markets. For those investors who are scared about the big drops and volatility that the stock market has been experiencing lately, I sat down and I wanted to write

Kiplinger

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The stock market smashed record after record in 2019. The S&P 500 put up nearly 30% in gains - one of the index's largest annual increases in years. That's the good news. The bad news is that has driven prices through the roof, making it even more di

Business Today

2 min. di lettura

Stock markets reflect expectations of the future. And in the past one year, the stock markets have signalled that they have high hopes for the near and medium term future. Despite disruptive reforms like demonetisation and GST or perhaps because o

STAT

1 min. di lettura

A group of academics and pharmacists argue that assigning scores based on a mix of regulatory actions and chemical analysis would motivate drug makers to produce more “quality” drugs.

Kiplinger

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Around the beginning of 2018, the volatility of the stock market suddenly picked up. It was a worrying development for most investors, who prefer a smooth ride to a turbulent one. But volatility is a necessary condition if you want to deploy a strate

Kiplinger

5 min. di lettura

Like every other investor, I felt sick watching the Dow Jones industrial average lose three-eighths of its value in just 40 days in February and March. But I felt a little thrill as well. I had a list. I could buy stocks I loved at a discount. Or, to

Money Magazine

2 min. di lettura

Share trading volumes have surged during the pandemic, as people make the most of social distancing and lockdown to try their hand at trading. But the risks facing inexperienced traders can have devastating financial and mental implications. “Trading

Finweek - English

1 min. di lettura

Fairtree’s Global Real Estate Prescient Fund aims to provide clients with access to high-quality, international real estate assets with capital appreciation potential, while also delivering solid dollar-denominated dividends. Established in March 201

Kiplinger

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When it comes to Wall Street's favorite dividend stocks, the pros are all about energy companies and utilities these days. Whether it's an increase in residential energy needs or a nascent recovery in commodity prices, analysts' most highly rated div

Kiplinger

1 min. di lettura

Small-company stocks have trailed large-company stocks for much of the bull market. But you wouldn't know that by looking at Wasatch Small Cap Value. The fund's 18.8% annualized gain since the stock market rally began in March 2009 beats the return o

Money Magazine

3 min. di lettura

I have been writing the Marcus Today newsletter for more than 20 years and read something called “Bob Farrell’s rules of investment” over 30 years ago. Farrell was the chief stockmarket analyst at Merrill Lynch from the late 1960s until 1992. He was

Kiplinger

2 min. di lettura

The stock market goes through recurring cycles that look to us like the four seasons. Fear is rarely apparent in spring or summer and barely palpable even in the fall. However, the “winter” portion of a stock market cycle is typically the harbinger o

Kiplinger

1 min. di lettura

Seasoned investors know that generating superior returns isn't just about putting the right equities into your portfolio. It's also about identifying stocks to sell – whether it's to lock in gains or limit losses – and knowing what companies you shou

Kiplinger

1 min. di lettura

Famed Hollywood director Howard Hawks is said to have defined a good film as one with three good scenes and no bad ones. The management team behind American Century Equity Income (symbol, TWEIX) takes a similar approach when it comes to undervalued l

Femina

3 min. di lettura

For Mumbai-based mass media graduate Shivani Thakkar, it was a spur-of-the-moment decision to be a part of the dazzling world of stocks, and she’s not looked back ever since. “I had no idea what I was getting into when I purchased the first bunch of

Kiplinger

1 min. di lettura

Mount Rushmore features massive 60-foot-tall busts of celebrated presidents George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Abraham Lincoln and Theodore Roosevelt, each chosen for their respective roles in preserving or expanding the Republic. But if you were t

Kiplinger

5 min. di lettura

What a difference a year makes. On Christmas Eve 2018, the S&P 500 closed sharply down, bringing its peak-to-trough losses to 19.8% - just shy of the 20% loss that defines a bear market. Even many of the best stock funds were clobbered. You had to lo

Kiplinger

4 min. di lettura

In theory, midsize-company stocks operate in a sweet spot for investors. No longer struggling to get out of the gates, these financially mature firms, led by experienced executives, should come with more stability than small companies. They should al

Kiplinger

2 min. di lettura

As I mentioned in past columns, when the market took a dive in February and March, I swooped in to buy shares of two of my favorite companies: Boeing (symbol BA, $358) and Costco (COST, $207). Those purchases used up almost all of my cash. I even sol

MoneyWeek

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“Insider trading is going on in plain sight but... the company insiders involved are commended... That’s because [it] involves gifts of company shares to charity. These are the findings of a new study... analysing all [US] charitable gifts of stock f

Kiplinger

1 min. di lettura

It might seem counterintuitive, but as investors get deep into a stock market rally like the current one, it doesn't hurt to monitor the portfolio for stocks to sell now. No stock goes up in perpetuity. It might be easy to look at the red-hot runs of

Kiplinger

1 min. di lettura

For stock mutual fund AMG TimesSquare International Small Cap (symbol TCMIX), the past year started with a yelp and ended with a hurrah. Over the past 12 months, this member of The Kiplinger 25, our favorite low-fee funds, returned 15.9%, beating its

Kiplinger

5 min. di lettura

Congratulations! If you're reading this, it means you're alive and that the stock market volatility over the past month hasn't put you in an early grave. Or at least it hasn't yet. Let's call it a victory. Frankly, we should take what we can get. The

Kiplinger

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As the U.S. equity market continues a string of volatile days in December, it's normal for people to wonder if their investments are well positioned. As of Dec. 10, the Standard & Poor's 500 index had declined 8% over the past three months, and witho

Kiplinger

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You've had some good times together. You've had some bad times. Now you have to decide if it's time for your stock to start seeing other people. Selling isn't easy, especially if you've been together for a long time. The best reason to sell a stock i

Money Magazine

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As the world’s largest manufacturer of personal protective equipment and gloves, Ansell is one of the few companies positioned to benefit from the Covid-19 outbreak. We lowered the stock’s price guide in early March to allow for any adverse impact on

Kiplinger

2 min. di lettura

The ink on my last column hadn't yet dried when the market gods presented a potential answer to my problem. (The problem: no cash in my portfolio, which means no ammunition to take advantage of any buying opportunities that might arise.) The possible

Money Magazine

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The search for the highest returns in Australian equities has been concentrated in a small group of companies now known as WAAAX stocks - WiseTech, Appen, Afterpay, Altium and Xero. Collectively, these companies are expected to earn just $162 million