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Beat the S&P 500 -- Guaranteed! Put a too-often-neglected investing tool, reinvesting index fund dividends, to work for you.   |
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One Investment to Avoid in Today's Market When good theories go terribly wrong. For investors seeking to benefit from the advantages of dividend-paying stocks, the WisdomTree Equity Income ETF is one investment to avoid. |
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S&P 500 Dividend News The dividend world is getting richer -- are you taking advantage of it? |
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Buy and Hold Is Dead. Long Live Buy and Hold! When SPDRs investors, hoping only to track the movement of the S&P 500 stock index, are losing money, as they have over the trailing 10 years (a far cry from earning the ballyhooed 10% average annual return), the wisdom of buy-and-hold is rightfully challenged. |
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Can You Stop Buying Stocks? Probably not yet, but you can reach that point. |
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Investing Still Beats Doing Nothing It's about way more than just capital gains. The discipline enforced by saving regularly will help you focus the rest of your spending on those things that are most important to you. |
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The Secret to Growth You Can Count On The secret to growth you can count on is to buy stocks with sustainable dividends and reinvest them. |
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A Fund Designed to Grow Instead of tracking the Dow or the S&P 500, the PowerShares FTSE RAFI US 1000 ETF tracks an index weighted by company fundamentals, which has given better performance historically. |
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Are You Overdiversified? Learn what you're really getting with an S&P 500 index fund. |
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Mutual Fund Fakery Is your expensive, managed fund really an index fund in disguise? |
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The Surprising S&P 500 Learn fun facts about the venerated index, which just turned 50. Many index funds and exchange-traded funds (ETFs) are tied to it. |
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Don't Buy the S&P 500 If throttling the market is your goal -- and it should be -- you need to buy individual stocks -- and you need a way to separate the winners from the losers. |
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Improving on Index Funds As the fund universe continues to evolve, new funds have emerged that try to improve on their first-generation counterparts. One fund in particular has its sights set high -- the Rydex S&P Equal Weight ETF. |
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Crushing the Market Is Easier Than You Think One simple number can help you. Between 2000 and 2009, the average dividend-adjusted return on stocks with market caps above $5 billion and a trailing yield of 2.5% or better was a whopping 114%. |
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Never Dollar-Cost Average? Is it really so wrong to nibble into the market? |
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January 17, 2007
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Earn 30% Better Returns Over time, dividend payments represent a large fraction of investors' total returns. |
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Simple Ways to Win With Large Caps Put together a great set of investments in just a few steps by using exchange traded funds. |
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January 31, 2008
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This Will Scare You Silly As scary as the current and potential 10-year returns for the S&P sound, investors who added international stocks to their portfolio in 1998 have still come out ahead. |
The Motley Fool
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Why You Must Invest Now To have a reasonable shot at a golden retirement, you must get started now. The easiest way to get started is with a low-cost, total-market index fund like the Vanguard Total Stock Market Index. |
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3 Stocks That Are Automatic Wealth Machines Three stocks that made people rich and how to find your own. |
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Look Mom! I Beat the S&P Again! Legg's Value Trust---relative fund superstar or absolute media hype? |
The Motley Fool
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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. |
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How to Save Your Retirement Today At a time like this, it is critical to remember that four key drivers determine how much money you'll have at retirement. |
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Earn 30% Better Returns If you're serious about making money from your investing, then you need to pay attention to your dividends. Over time, dividend payments represent a large fraction of investors' total returns. |
The Motley Fool
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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
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Don't Mess With the Aristocrats The Dividend Aristocrats are S&P 500 companies that have upped their payouts to shareholders for a truly impressive 25 years in a row. |
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3 Reasons Not to Care What the Market Does ... At least, not today. |
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Why Mega-Cap Stocks Are Not Enough Before you jump into the biggest, most popular index funds that are based on the S&P 500 index, think twice. |
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Investments That Don't Stand a Chance An active fund that only seeks to match its benchmark is a waste of your money. If that's all a fund can offer, you're much better off going with the index fund. |
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Make This 401(k) Problem Go Away Buying too much employer stock will get you into trouble. |
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Reinvest Those Dividends -- Differently Reinvesting dividends is often a smart and effective thing to do -- but you might have smarter and more effective options. |
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Stocks Worth Forgetting It's as simple as a fire drill: Buy, hold, and reinvest. These are exactly the kinds of stocks you can buy and forget about: Sysco... Bank of America... Pitney Bowes... etc. |
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One Way to Double Your Returns Reinvesting your dividends is a simple way to juice your returns. |
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These Investments Could Steer You Wrong Index funds and exchange-traded funds aren't perfect. |
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The Motley Fool
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Selena Maranjian |
Schwab Gets Competitive Both the company and its customers can profit from this index fund revamp. |
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The Weight of Wal-Mart's World Standard & Poor's is tweaking the weighting formula on its various indexes, including its widely tracked S&P 500 benchmark. The intention is noble. With $1 trillion invested in index funds, liquidity is a major concern. |
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Psst -- Here's My Secret Formula Why reinvesting your dividends matters. |
