Throughout your career, retirement planning will likely be one of the most important components of your overall financial plan. Whether you have just graduated and taken your first job, or are starting a family, enjoying your peak earning years, or… Read More
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Six Keys to More Successful Investing
A successful investor maximizes gain and minimizes loss. Though there can be no guarantee that any investment strategy will be successful and all investing involves risk, including the possible loss of principal, here are six basic principles that may help… Read More
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Fundamental Concepts for New Investors
Investing involves setting goals for the future and weighing the risks and potential rewards associated with a wide variety of investment opportunities. If you are a new investor, this might seem like an overwhelming task. But take heart. Becoming familiar… Read More
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Is Inflation Transient or Structural?
Inflation has been central to the market narrative for the first half of the year. With consumer prices surging and long-run inflation expectations at multiyear highs, we dissect whether rising inflation is technical, transient, or structural. Investors will continue to… Read More
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Why Should I Invest in the Stock Market Now?
NAVIGATING THROUGH MARKET VOLATILITY WHERE IS THE MARKET HEADED? Volatility may have some investors contemplating when they should pull out of the market or if they should sit on the sidelines and wait for the best time to invest. If you’re… Read More
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Growth vs. Value: What’s the Difference?
There are generally two schools of thought about how to choose stocks that may be worth investing in. Value investors generally buy stocks that appear to be bargains relative to the company’s intrinsic worth. Growth investors prefer companies that are… Read More
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Past Performance is Not an Indication of Future Results
“While results vary from asset class to asset class and from time period to time period, experience suggests that for predicting future values, historical data appear to be quite useful with respect to standard deviations (risk), reasonably useful for correlations,… Read More
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Is There a Gender-gap in Investing?
There is a plethora of research suggesting that, at least at the individual level, women may be better investors than men. For example, a major financial institution looked at over 8 million client accounts and found that women outperformed men… Read More
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Lump Sum vs. Dollar Cost Averaging: Which is Better?
Some people go swimming by diving into the pool; others prefer to edge into the water gradually, especially if the water’s cold. A decision about putting money into an investment can be somewhat similar. Is it best to invest your… Read More