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The Motley Fool December 11, 2008 Dan Caplinger |
Find the Best Deal on Dividend Stocks Once you decide that you want to add some dividend stocks or funds to your portfolio, you need to figure out how to do it.  |
The Motley Fool August 18, 2009 Dan Caplinger |
The Easy Way to Find Big Dividends Choosing a solid dividend ETF can help you diversify your portfolio while giving you the benefits that dividend-payers offer.  |
The Motley Fool April 25, 2011 Cindy Johnson |
It's Time to Sell Your Small-Cap Stocks Large-cap valuations are unusually attractive.  |
The Motley Fool October 6, 2006 Selena Maranjian |
A Dividend-Heavy ETF ETFs can be a simple way to invest in a lot of hefty dividend payers.  |
The Motley Fool January 23, 2008 Selena Maranjian |
Investments for a Recession There are many things you can do to prepare your portfolio for a potential recession.  |
The Motley Fool October 15, 2008 Selena Maranjian |
A New Way to Battle the Economy Should you defend your portfolio with the new Sabrient Defensive Equity Index ETF?  |
The Motley Fool October 17, 2011 Selena Maranjian |
Make Money in High-Yield Stocks the Easy Way If you expect stocks with solid dividend yields to reward shareholders over the long term, the Vanguard High Dividend Yield Index ETF could save you a lot of trouble.  |
The Motley Fool October 24, 2005 Mathew Emmert |
Dividends Go Mainstream Soaring demand among dividend-based exchange-traded funds shows that the yield is once again in vogue.  |
The Motley Fool December 16, 2008 Dan Caplinger |
Make the Right Investment Every Time Even after close examination, it can be hard to tell many investments apart. Therefore, how can you ensure that you make the best choice every time?  |
The Motley Fool September 3, 2011 Selena Maranjian |
Make Money in Consumer Staples the Easy Way There's no need to guess which consumer staples company will perform best if you invest in exchange-traded funds.  |
The Motley Fool April 4, 2011 Sean Williams |
3 ETFs Safe Enough For Retirement These three ETFs could provide the dividend income you've been looking for.  |
The Motley Fool March 29, 2011 Michael Johnston |
Dividend ETF Investing: Mid-Cap Options These dividend paying ETFs are worth a look.  |
The Motley Fool March 11, 2010 Selena Maranjian |
How to Build a Better S&P 500 As terrific as S&P 500 index funds can be, they're not perfect. But a newer, potentially better kind of index fund could help fix one of their biggest weaknesses.  |
The Motley Fool August 24, 2007 Zoe Van Schyndel |
Safe-Harbor ETFs When the market gets choppy, there are safe places to dock your assets. Treasury securities jumped in price so much in one day this past week because of strong demand from investors who sought a safe place for their money.  |
The Motley Fool November 16, 2006 Selena Maranjian |
The Best ETF for 2007: iShares Dow Jones Select Dividend Wondering what exactly is in the iShares Dow Jones Select Dividend Index? Wonder no more. It invests in the 100 (or so) highest-yielding companies in the Dow Jones U.S. Total Market Index.  |
The Motley Fool February 9, 2010 Dan Caplinger |
3 Reasons to Move Beyond Index Funds If you want to take your investing prowess to the next level you'll want to move beyond index funds -- at least with part of your savings.  |
The Motley Fool April 18, 2006 Tom Taulli |
An ETF for New Stocks IPOs become the latest to join the ETF party. The IPOX-100 Index Fund is essentially a mid-cap index -- with a nice marketing angle.  |
The Motley Fool August 29, 2007 Amanda B. Kish |
The Best Small-Cap ETFs These exchange-traded funds win the best-in-class award. Let's take a closer look at the iShares Russell 2000 Index ETF, the Vanguard Small-Cap ETF, the iShares Morningstar Small Core ETF, the iShares S&P 600 Value ETF, and the Vanguard Small-Cap Growth ETF.  |
Financial Advisor April 2009 Marla Brill |
Tapping ETFs Dividend-rich ETFs may boost returns when the market is treading water.  |
BusinessWeek April 25, 2005 Robert Barker |
Dividend Income Without The Hassle The low tax rate on qualified dividends are nice, but the rules over what makes a dividend qualified are tricky. The iShares Dow Jones Select Dividend Index Fund and PowerShares High Yield Equity Dividend Achievers Portfolio track high-dividend stocks, but you still have to be careful at tax time.  |
The Motley Fool July 21, 2008 Dan Caplinger |
Will Dividend Stocks Survive? Adding dividend-paying stocks to your portfolio can help you make millions in the long run. Lately, though, many investors have seen much bigger losses on their dividend stocks than they've gotten back in their quarterly checks.  |
The Motley Fool May 21, 2007 Dan Caplinger |
Going Beyond the Index Rather than using a weighted index based on the market cap of the component stocks, WisdomTree ETFs base their portfolio allocations for index components on fundamental aspects of those stocks, such as dividend yield and company earnings.  |
The Motley Fool May 8, 2009 Dan Caplinger |
Lights Out for Dividend ETFs? Funds fell into the dividend trap, but that doesn't mean the idea is bad.  |
The Motley Fool May 3, 2010 Alex Dumortier |
4 Stocks That Are Leading the Rebound in Dividends With their April dividend raises, IBM, Johnson & Johnson, Procter & Gamble, and ExxonMobil added $1.9 billion to S&P 500 dividends  |
The Motley Fool April 11, 2011 Jared Cummans |
Investors Put a Down Payment on High-Yielding Real Estate ETFs There are some risks to REITs in the current environment; should you be considering them?  |
The Motley Fool March 30, 2011 Dan Caplinger |
Watch This Top-Yielding ETF The iShares FTSE NAREIT Mortgage Plus Capped Index Fund makes plenty of payouts with its high-dividend holdings.  |
The Motley Fool December 27, 2004 Roger Nusbaum |
China Choices A new, perhaps better, exchange traded fund offers investment in China.  |
Financial Advisor October 2011 Marla Brill |
On The Defense Plain-vanilla sectors are leading the ETF pack.  |
The Motley Fool June 18, 2010 Mihael Johnston |
7 ETFs for Investors Mourning the Death of BP's Dividend Check out these investing suggestions.  |
The Motley Fool May 2, 2011 Selena Maranjian |
ETFs With the Best of Both Worlds Passive, active, and outperforming -- what's not to like?  |
The Motley Fool February 17, 2010 Selena Maranjian |
Investments for the Indecisive Can't make up your mind? ETFs might help.  |
The Motley Fool October 1, 2011 Alex Planes |
How to Make Money in a Volatile Market Mitigate market mayhem with these consistent defensive stock superstars.  |
The Motley Fool February 10, 2004 Selena Maranjian |
New Exchange-Traded Fund for Dividends A new way to get dividend income.  |
The Motley Fool January 11, 2012 Selena Maranjian |
Invest in the Whole World -- the Easy Way If you expect that the world's economies will grow over time, boosting the value of the world's public companies, the Vanguard Total World Stock Market Index ETF could save you a lot of trouble.  |
The Motley Fool November 3, 2011 Dan Caplinger |
Where Smart Europeans Are Investing Now (and You Should Too) Don't let them beat you to the punch. Reports from several sources show that Europeans have adopted the same fanatical devotion to dividend stocks that their U.S. counterparts have had for years now.  |
The Motley Fool March 4, 2010 Selena Maranjian |
Are ETFs Cutting Corners? This practice makes sense for funds, but could mean pain for you. It seems that most ETFs don't completely mimic their underlying indexes  |
The Motley Fool April 5, 2007 Joe Magyer |
The Weekly Dividend Exploring the best of the dividend-focused ETFs. iShares Dow Jones Select Dividend Index Fund... PowerShares High Yield Equity Dividend Achievers...  |
The Motley Fool December 8, 2006 Zoe Van Schyndel |
Delving Into Dividend ETFs Dividend ETFs have the same advantages over traditional mutual funds as regular ETFs, including low fees and the ability to buy and sell during the day.  |
The Motley Fool January 26, 2010 Adam J. Wiederman |
It's Still Time to Buy! Sure, the rally's gone, but the long-term potential is still here.  |
The Motley Fool March 18, 2011 Selena Maranjian |
Make Money in Preferred Stock the Easy Way There's no need to guess which company's preferred stock will perform best with the iShares S&P U.S. Preferred Stock Index ETF.  |
The Motley Fool October 27, 2011 Selena Maranjian |
Mutual Funds That Are in the Closet Are No Bargain Make sure you're not severely overpaying for your funds. The problem is closet-indexing, which happens when a fund has too much in common with the S&P 500 index of 500 of America's biggest companies, or with some other index that serves as its benchmark.  |
The Motley Fool January 7, 2005 Shannon Zimmerman |
ETF Tip No. 2: Buyer Beware Some exchange-traded funds aren't for anyone.  |
The Motley Fool January 27, 2010 Dan Caplinger |
These Investments Could Steer You Wrong Index funds and exchange-traded funds aren't perfect.  |
The Motley Fool June 5, 2007 Selena Maranjian |
ETFs for Dividend Hunters Exchange-traded funds offer one more way to invest in stocks that pay you back.  |
The Motley Fool February 25, 2010 John Rosevear |
The Great Investing Cop-Out Index funds used to be considered a good idea. Are they still?  |
Investment Advisor September 2010 Vaughan Scully |
The ETF Advisor: New ETFs in 2010 for Hedge Funds, Foreign Stocks and MLPs Among the new ETFs hitting the market this year are several actively managed ETFs, sector and small cap ETFs for foreign markets, and exchange-traded notes that track shares in master limited partnerships.  |
The Motley Fool November 15, 2011 Selena Maranjian |
Make Money in Profitable Small Caps the Easy Way If you expect small companies to do well in coming years as the global economy recovers, the iShares S&P SmallCap 600 Index ETF could save you a lot of trouble.  |
The Motley Fool July 30, 2007 Amanda B. Kish |
The Key to ETF Success As firms such as Vanguard and Barclays continue to duke it out for dominance in the ETF arena, costs will likely continue to fall across the board. That should be a good thing -- for both investors and the ETF market in general.  |
BusinessWeek March 12, 2007 Lauren Young |
The Trouble With ETFs As more esoteric funds proliferate, they're failing to live up to their promises.  |
The Motley Fool June 29, 2010 Dan Caplinger |
The Better Way to Beat the Market? The jury's still out on alternative indexes. Different market conditions will make index funds perform in various ways.  |