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10 Index Funds Vying for a Spot in Your Portfolio

Index funds are often described as plain vanilla investments. These low-cost funds aren’t flashy and won’t make you rich overnight. Rather, they austerely strive to deliver a similar return to the benchmark they are tracking, thereby offering consistent but not stellar income over the long term. That’s one of the reasons why these funds [...]

3 Stocks With Safe 4% Yields

Investors who are fretting over the stock ticker market’s next go should turn to dividends. Price gains, after all, can prove illusory.
In just more than 12 years, the Dow Jones Industrial Average has made four major thrusts past 8000 only to slide back below that mark each time. It topped 9300 in the [...]

13 Small-Cap Funds on a Tear

The upcoming Labor Day weekend may mark the end of summer to some, but for investors it will mark the end of a nine-month period filled with incredible volatility, two lackluster earnings season and despite it all, incredible gains. The S&P 500, for example, is up 13.5% year to date.
But one of the largest winners [...]

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