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Surprise: You're Probably Paying a Lot More in Investing Fees Than You Think

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38% of mutual fund investors think they don't pay any mutual fund fees or expenses. Here's a very stark example, modeling hedge fund fees, which can be exceptionally steep, from the folks at Dividend Growth Investor: "If you invested $1,000 in Berkshire Hathaway in 1965, by 2009 your investment would have been worth $4.3

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3 High-Yield Dividend ETFs to Buy to Generate Passive Income

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Exchange-traded funds (ETFs) are one way to go about it. Equity ETFs invest in stocks, providing diversification like a mutual fund. Despite the fund's name, it has 62% invested in mid-capitalization stocks, or those between a $2 billion and $10 billion market capitalization. As the name suggests, the ETF invests in U.S.

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Prediction: CDs Will Earn Less Than This Investment Over the Next 5 Years

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When it comes to the S&P 500 -- a stock market index that tracks the stock performance of 500 of the largest companies on the stock exchanges -- it's all about digging into past performance. Whether I'm investing through a mutual fund, 401(k), or buying individual stocks , my goal has never been to invest in winners every time.

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A Once-in-a-Decade Investment Opportunity: 1 Little-Known Vanguard Index Fund to Buy for the Artificial Intelligence (AI) Boom

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Investors hoping to benefit from the AI boom are focused on technology companies. companies that come from the utilities sector. Southern Company: 7.2% and its status as the second-largest nuclear power company in terms of generation capacity. Duke Energy: 6.7% Constellation Energy: 6.2% Sempra Energy: 3.9% PG&E: 3.1%

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This Artificial Intelligence (AI) Stock Is My Top Stock-Split Candidate for 2024

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Stock splits have become a popular maneuver among some of the world's largest technology companies to keep their stock prices accessible to their employees and small investors. Simply put, when a company creates substantial amounts of value, investors sometimes need to fork out hundreds, or even thousands of dollars to buy a single share.

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Meet the Best-Performing Low-Cost Vanguard ETF in 2024. Here's Why It May Still Be a Buy for 2025 and Beyond.

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Mutual fund giant Vanguard Group offers over 60 equity-focused exchange-traded funds (ETFs). Company P/E Ratio Forward P/E Ratio 3-Year Median P/E Ratio 5-Year Median P/E Ratio 7-Year Median P/E Ratio 10-Year Median P/E Ratio Mastercard 40.3 All five companies have P/B ratios right around their historical ranges.

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Could Buying Berkshire Hathaway Today Set You Up for Life?

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The Berkshire Hathaway you don't know There's the Berkshire you know; it holds stakes in a bunch of publicly traded companies including Apple , Coca-Cola , and Bank of America. The fact is, however, Berkshire is less like a mutual fund than perceived. He simply buys into companies he likes. Others stand alone.