The Motley Fool

AUGUST 12, 2024

The stock market, as measured by the S&P 500 index of 500 of America's biggest companies, has been surging recently. That's enough to discourage many investors, who may be thinking that it's too late to invest in stocks now. Exchange-traded funds (ETFs) are worth thinking about for this. (An stock market's value.

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The Motley Fool

JULY 2, 2023

Broadly speaking though, a pullback of 10% (or more) from an index's peak is considered to be a correction For the sake of comparison, most consider a slide of 20% or more to be a bear market. A 10% sell-off, however, is a lot in light of the fact that the stock market's average annual gain is also on the order of 10%.

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The Motley Fool

AUGUST 5, 2023

But if you bought, say , in the wake of the global financial crisis, 2008, 2009, that was an excellent time to buy. If you're curious, how much these folks are investing in the stock market across all Vanguard plans, 72% is invested in stocks. So target date fund.

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The Motley Fool

MAY 13, 2024

Alison Southwick: How much you invest in the stock market and how much you keep out will be one of the most important decisions you make about your portfolio. In fact, mutual funds that invest along these lines have come to be known as balanced funds. But who does it make sense for? Does it still make sense?

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The Motley Fool

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

By December 2009, Nvidia had begun to recover, and for my new monthly Motley Fool Stock Advisor pick, I picked one stock a month from 2002-2021 for Motley Fool Stock Advisor. Five years later, at the end of 2014, the stock finally hit $60 a share. Yes, that bullish rerecommendation I bravely made in 2009 at 48.

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The Motley Fool

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

That's when our stocks really go bananas. For us to tack on 12% points of outperformance in this market has been particularly sweet, even if 2007 so often felt bittersweet. Fellow Fools, the stock market is a roller coaster, full of swoops and dives. Remember, stock market equals roller coaster.

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The Motley Fool

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

Why value stocks may have fallen out of fashion. What the history of the stock market reveals about modern bubbles. To get started investing, check out our quick-start guide to investing in stocks. You wrote that bubbles and bus are inevitable features of financial markets ever since the 17th century.

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The Big Picture

OCTOBER 24, 2022

And so there was a lot of need on the active mutual fund friends. And so my coverage list kind of converted over time to focus more on mutual funds, to focus on five to nine plans, college savings. RITHOLTZ: So these are stocks, bonds, ETFs, mutual funds? And he found it in the mutual fund space.

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ClearMoney

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

Narasimhan Jegadeesh and Sheridan Titman, “Returns to Buying Winners and Selling Losers: Implications for Stock Market Efficiency,” Journal of Finance 48, no. Stock price momentum generally refers to the tendency of stocks with relatively high prior returns to continue their relative outperformance.

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ClearMoney

DECEMBER 5, 2021

1 This trend may be worrisome for investors expecting an adverse impact on stock returns once the bill for all this spending comes due. However, the relation between country debt and stock markets is complex, in part because sovereign solvency is dependent upon many factors other than just debt level. Power of Market Prices.

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ClearMoney

DECEMBER 5, 2021

1 This trend may be worrisome for investors expecting an adverse impact on stock returns once the bill for all this spending comes due. However, the relation between country debt and stock markets is complex, in part because sovereign solvency is dependent upon many factors other than just debt level. Power of Market Prices.

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The Motley Fool

MARCH 5, 2024

That was when I was 20 years old, afterwards when I got my degree in nursing and entering in the workforce in 2008 is when I started investing for the retirement in the stock market. When the stock market is going up and down, we would want to sell at the downturn. In essence, my business career ended in 2009.

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The Motley Fool

DECEMBER 3, 2024

And the numbers speak for themselves: Nvidia: if you invested $1,000 when we doubled down in 2009, you’d have $359,445 !* The second thing everyone has been waiting for is a broadening of the stock market, away from large tech, away from MAG-7 to the other 493 stocks in the S&P 500. Don't time the market.

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Pension Pulse

MAY 19, 2023

In other words there is support for stocks, as many potential buyers wait in the wings for current worries to subside, says LPL’s Smith. Extremes in pessimism in the AAII data are, on average, bullish for near-term stock market returns (and extreme investor optimism tends to be bearish for the near-term outlook). No exceptions.

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The Big Picture

OCTOBER 19, 2022

There is that same payment for distribution service, the mutual funds. Our fee cuts are not a pricing marketing strategy, Barry. So we’re really a mutual-mutual fund company. What I mean by that is if you’re an investor in one of our funds, you own a little pro rata piece of Vanguard.

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The Big Picture

APRIL 11, 2023

And the only reason I can think for why dividends became the key way of returning cash is I went back to the history of markets. Bond markets preceded stock markets. So when stock markets were first open, to attract investors to buy stocks, they had to be disguised as bonds. DAMODARAN: Yeah.

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The Motley Fool

DECEMBER 23, 2024

There's hardly any arguing with the fact that investing in the stock market is one of the best ways to build wealth. based active fund managers underperformed the broader S&P 500. It's not difficult to realize that over time, a large chunk of client capital in these funds gets eaten up by fees.

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The Motley Fool

JANUARY 19, 2025

If you used this strategy over the last 20 years, you'd have outperformed almost 92% of all domestic large-cap mutual funds. The odds are good that it'll continue to outperform nearly every actively managed fund on Wall Street over the next 20 years. First, it's important to understand the mechanics of the stock market.

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The Motley Fool

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

Wall Street wants you to think you need to be a rocket scientist to make money in the stock market. Exchange-traded funds ( ETFs ) can provide you with all the diversification you need to protect and grow your wealth. stocks, in turn, have delivered wealth-building returns of about 10% annually for almost a century.

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The Motley Fool

MARCH 23, 2025

When I was a new investor, for example, I got excited about a mutual fund that had gained around 82% in a single year. Similarly, some might be drawn to stocks with enormous dividend yields. While the dividend remains unchanged, the yield changes every time the stock goes up or down. So I bought shares.

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The Motley Fool

JANUARY 26, 2025

Others believe that companies paying dividends don't offer meaningful growth prospects and aren't the right investments for people who want to make a lot of money in the stock market. Wake up with Breakfast news in your inbox every market day. Today, it is considered the world's largest mutual fund company.

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The Motley Fool

JANUARY 14, 2025

You can reinvest these dividends in more shares of the fund paying them. You should, in fact, since the market's best dividend payers also usually end up being its best-performing stocks in terms of capital appreciation. If youre worried youve already missed your chance to invest, now is the best time to buy before its too late.

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The Motley Fool

MARCH 17, 2025

stock market, has declined over 8%, flirting with a technical correction (10% decline from peak). What's been hard for many is the speed at which things have moved; numerous down days can be jarring, especially after the market has been so strong since early 2023. Nobody knows what the stock market will do in the short term.

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The Motley Fool

JANUARY 21, 2025

Most mutual fund managers with time and the right tools to beat the market don't actually do so, underscoring just how difficult it is for ordinary investors like yourself to achieve the feat. For the past 10 years, the underperformance figure grows to nearly 85% of these funds. it's not a millionaire maker?

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The Motley Fool

MARCH 17, 2025

Receive dividend income in good times and bad One of the best things about dividend-paying stocks is that as long as they're tied to healthy and growing companies, they'll keep on kicking out income to you no matter what the economy and the stock market are doing. Its expense ratio (annual fee) is just 0.06%.

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The Motley Fool

DECEMBER 25, 2024

And the numbers speak for themselves: Nvidia: if you invested $1,000 when we doubled down in 2009, youd have $363,593 !* You haven't seen stocks going down that much. Whether it's next year, whether it's 2026, 2027, any future year, there will be a bear market. There will be a correction in the stock market.

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The Big Picture

JANUARY 21, 2025

Barry Ritholtz : You go from Forbes pretty much during the golden era of, of mutual funds and star managers like the eighties and nineties, that was Peak mutual fund. And subsequently, when I covered mutual funds for the journal, was the star manager profile. And it was very formulaic.

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The Big Picture

DECEMBER 17, 2024

In addition to being a portfolio manager and running a number of mutual funds and ETFs, he is just a world-class technology investor who understands the sector like few other people do. 00:17:14 And, and that, that gets expressed in an active fund and ETF or a mutual fund or whatever. Tell us what that focus is.

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The Motley Fool

JANUARY 22, 2025

Two stocks worth watching: Invitation Homes and Duolingo. Then Motley Fool co-Founder David Gardner and host Ricky Mulvey talk about the stock market in 2025 and how to keep the short-term noise out of the way of your long-term returns. Our analyst team just revealed what they believe are the 10 best stocks to buy right now.

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The Big Picture

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

I remember it really well because I just finished building this house in West Virginia and we, we were taking occupancy in early August, and it was, it was literally the same day that BMP Paraba shut off redemptions from some of their mutual funds, caused all sorts of chaos in Europe. So that was a big job in the spring of, of 2009.

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The Big Picture

APRIL 8, 2025

We’ve had gone through the, the Covid crisis, which stimulated unprecedented fiscal stimulus as a share of GDP and performance, what clients have actually experienced, if you go back to March of 2009, right? And you, and I remember March of 2009, the bottom, we were probably looking at an s and p 500 that was trading in the mid 606 6 6.

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