Theres nothing like a honking stock-market rally to prompt us to declare the end of a financial emergency. But whether or not the economy and the financial markets are really out of the woods, its clear that the way we...
Theres nothing like a honking stock-market rally to prompt us to declare the end of a financial emergency. But whether or not the economy and the financial markets are really out of the woods, its clear that the way we...
Bob Bacarella, manager of Monetta Young Investor, is so jazzed about the fund that he seems to take any opportunity he can to tell investors about it. In fact, hes been promoting the fund by posting comments on assorted Web...
ANCHORING Anchoring is he tendency to work from a point of reference -- no matter how irrelevant that point may be. For example, you might have been looking for weeks at a stock trading for about $20. The stock drops to...
Editors note: This story originally was published in the March 1998 issue of Kiplingers Personal Finance magazine.If you want to irk a financial planner, try this: Dont take money out of your fat savings account to pay...
The most remarkable breakthrough in personal finance in the past 20 years is identifying the reasons we are so poorly programmed for investing. Interest in the fields of behavioral finance, investor psychology and...
If the market's wild swings have left you a little queasy, you might be wise to add a stabilizer to your portfolio: a balanced fund. Balanced funds keep a stash of bonds on hand at all times to serve as ballast for their...
My hedge fund had a bad year last year. So far this year, it has a double-digit percentage-point lead over the market. That's a substantial advantage, but it's not an insurmountable one; it could easily disappear by December...
You'd think that a 60-year-old money manager who races Porsches at speeds of up to 160 miles per hour would be a daredevil when it comes to investing his clients' cash. But nothing could be further from the truth when the...
It's been a good year so far for high-yield-bond investors. Consider it payback for 2008, when a flight to quality crushed prices of low-grade debt. The action in 2009, by contrast, resembles a dash to trash. U.S. junk bonds,...
Next Page >Editor's note: This story has been updated since it originally was published. Since Kiplinger's first wrote about...
You want a home of your own, an education for your kids, a comfortable retirement someday and a little fun along...
Investment goals tend to be long-term: enough to pay college tuition starting in ten years, for instance, or enough...
