The Motley Fool

DECEMBER 31, 2023

There have been only two exceptions in the last six decades -- one at the beginning of the dot-com bubble bursting in 2000, and another with the financial crisis in 2008. The longer your investing horizon, the bigger the bang you'll likely enjoy.

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The Motley Fool

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

Index exchange-traded funds (ETFs) are among the most popular investments on the market. They are easier to trade compared to more actively managed mutual funds and often carry low minimum initial investment requirements. Apple: if you invested $1,000 when we doubled down in 2008, you’d have $42,611 !*

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The Motley Fool

OCTOBER 25, 2024

Meet the Technology Select Sector SPDR ETF Launched in late 1998, the Technology Select Sector SPDR ETF is an exchange-traded fund (ETF) -- a security that's a lot like a mutual fund, but it trades like a stock. Apple: if you invested $1,000 when we doubled down in 2008, you’d have $43,618 !*

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The Motley Fool

NOVEMBER 17, 2024

As exchange-traded funds (ETFs) and mutual funds sell the deleted stocks to rebalance their tracking portfolios, the once-promising businesses tend to plummet into value stock territory. Apple: if you invested $1,000 when we doubled down in 2008, you’d have $42,611 !*

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The Motley Fool

AUGUST 1, 2024

Let's start with a 2024 survey from Gallup that asked: "Which of the following do you think is the best long-term investment -- [bonds, real estate, savings accounts or CDs, stocks or mutual funds, gold (or) cryptocurrency]?" Apple: if you invested $1,000 when we doubled down in 2008, you’d have $41,963 !*

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Motley Fool Asset Management

JULY 11, 2023

In a passive fund—like an index mutual fund? Or perhaps in an active exchange-traded fund (ETF)? Well, if you've seen the data showing that passive managers have done better during the prolonged bull run that began after the 2008 Global Financial Crisis, then the answer seems cut and dry.

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The Motley Fool

JUNE 9, 2024

That is, rather than trying to pick individual winners, step into a fund that's consistently well exposed to large technology stocks, or that holds the names that will eventually become these market-leading tickers. That's not just because most investors don't have 48 years to wait.

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Dear Mr. Market

MARCH 11, 2023

A perfect ETF (exchange traded fund) to accomplish this is the #9 seeded First Trust Rising Dividend Achievers ETF ( RDVY ). 3 seeded Hodges Small Cap Fund ( HDPSX ) is the epitome of a quality outfit that kicks the tires and vets companies the old fashioned way.

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The Motley Fool

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

For example, this particular episode, I'll be sharing an essay from January 2008, then we'll jump forward to 2012 and 2013. Essay Number 1 is from January 2008. That was the essay that kicked off the year of 2008. Well, that just continued pretty much the whole of 2008. We usually have some doozies. What a year that was.

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The Motley Fool

NOVEMBER 9, 2024

It charges fees for providing financial services to customers who buy its mutual funds, exchange-traded funds (ETFs), and other investment products. The key figure for investors here is assets under management (AUM), which rise and fall as customers deposit and withdraw funds and as the market goes up and down.

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The Big Picture

DECEMBER 6, 2022

I remember telling myself, why would anyone invest in mutual funds when you can buy an ETF instead? And I did the math, and I think at that point in time, roughly speaking, assets in ETS were roughly just 10 percent, 12 percent of assets in mutual funds and I was pretty convinced that that number was to increase significantly.

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The Motley Fool

JANUARY 28, 2024

With a glide path, the problem is that you're slowly introducing more bonds into one's retirement when in reality, and this is the shape that you mentioned before, maybe all of that money should be in equities, except the money you need in 3-5 years, perhaps to buy a house or for an emergency fund. Ricky Mulvey: I know we're low on time.

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The Motley Fool

MAY 21, 2024

Motley Fool host Alison Southwick and personal finance expert Robert Brokamp discuss how investors can evaluate exchange-traded funds. I'm looking here at the end of fiscal 07 so it's February 2008 for those of you playing along at home. Steps for evaluating your funds. We should probably stop growing.

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Pension Pulse

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

A hedge fund run by Michael Burry — who famously shorted subprime mortgages during the 2008 financial crisis and became a central figure in Michael Lewis’s 2010 book "The Big Short" — added 35,000 shares of Alphabet and 30,000 shares of Amazon. Here are some funds worth tracking closely.

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Pension Pulse

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

On the other hand, he's placed wagers against stocks via exchange-traded funds and against commodities by shorting copper. Here are some funds worth tracking closely. Below, are a few funds investors track closely. Some asset managers have excellent track records.

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ClearMoney

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

This indicator had correctly foreshadowed major downturns in 1987 and 2008. When it flashed a “sell” signal on Thursday, August 12, 2010, internet chat rooms and Wall Street trading desks were buzzing the next day, Friday the 13th, with talk of a looming crash, according to the Wall Street Journal.4

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The Motley Fool

AUGUST 7, 2024

Specifically, Vice President Harris' investments include an international fund, a large-cap fund, a mid-cap fund, several target-date funds (with dates of 2030 and 2045), a "stable value" fund, a large-cap growth fund, and an S&P 500 index fund.

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