Of all the forms of potential economic gloom and doom, stagflation is among the most concerning. But what is it exactly? What causes stagflation? And...
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What Is Par Value?
Investors who buy bonds obtain a key piece of information that the purchasers of most other investments don’t get—they know precisely how much money the...
You Can Win with Low-Maintenance Stocks
Few investors embrace the mantra, Less is more or have been more successful at it than Eddy Elfenbein. Since 2005, Elfenbein has trounced the S&P 500 index....
The 50% Rule
Should you put your money in stocks or bonds? How about investing a windfall all at once…or spreading it out in regular fixed amounts over...
Counterintuitive Stock Market Wisdom
Remember the episode of the TV sitcom Seinfeld when perpetual failure George Costanza realized his life would turn around if he would act counter to his own...
Unconventional S&P 500 Index Funds
If you’ve held an S&P 500 index fund or exchange-traded fund (ETF) in your portfolio over the past decade, kudos to you! The formidable S&P...
What Is Arbitrage? Examples in Investing, Airbnbs and More
If you spend time reading about finance topics, you’ve probably have come across the term arbitrage and perhaps wondered what it means…especially since the term...
Eight Best Stock Funds for 2025
The bull market is likely to continue through early 2025, but after two years of double-digit gains and new record highs, investors should expect plenty...
Is There Too Much Big Tech in Your Portfolio?
Do you suffer from TMT—Too Much Tech? Even if you think you are diversified because you own index funds, the technology sector now constitutes 33%...
Shrewd Investor: Chinese Stock Rally
Chinese stocks are the hot new asset class, despite double-digit losses every year since the end of the Pandemic. The MSCI China Index jumped 20%...
Best Money Moves for 2025
This is a year of great opportunity…but also one for caution. The economy is reaccelerating…yet investors will need to look past large technology stocks to...
6 REITs to Consider Now
The two-year-old bull market in stocks hasn’t been kind to real estate investment trusts, better known as REITs. This sector, which consists of companies that...
