The Motley Fool

OCTOBER 25, 2024

Most of us would like to become millionaires, and the stock market is arguably the best way of achieving that status over the long haul. But it can be hard to know which stocks to pick that will serve us best. It's focused, obviously, on the technology sector and recently held 69 different stocks.

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The Motley Fool

JULY 27, 2024

Or, in the case of, say, a mutual fund, it might sell shares in order to generate some cash with which to cover withdrawals from the fund. Think for yourself So it's generally not smart to sell (or buy) shares of a stock just because some big money did so. So any given move might not be driven by Buffett himself.

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The Motley Fool

DECEMBER 20, 2023

stock market, reflecting its health and trends. The S&P 500 checks off a lot of boxes at once Various financial institutions put together their own S&P 500 funds to mirror the index. Some of these are mutual funds. Others are exchange-traded funds (ETFs). 9, 2010, inception.

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The Motley Fool

JULY 16, 2024

stock market. So the S&P 500 is often used as a proxy for the market -- though it does omit lots of smaller companies. Why invest in an S&P 500 index fund? So an S&P 500 index fund is not a compromise dooming you to sub-par returns.

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The Motley Fool

JANUARY 3, 2024

It means that you should buy stocks based on logic, not emotions. Watching the daily ups and downs of the stock market, it's clear that a lot of investors are highly irrational. There is no shame in simply buying the broader stock market. In other words, consistently outperforming the broader stock market is hard.

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The Motley Fool

AUGUST 16, 2023

The cybersecurity stock jumped nearly 4% as investors applauded the move. Why do stocks rise after the news that they'll be added to the S&P 500? For one thing, exchange-traded funds (ETFs) and mutual funds that track the S&P 500 index must scoop up shares.

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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]?" That's because the stock market can be volatile, and you don't want to have to sell after a drop.

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The Motley Fool

OCTOBER 21, 2024

And the numbers speak for themselves: Amazon: if you invested $1,000 when we doubled down in 2010, you’d have $21,285 !* To have to truly read you back what I wrote 15 or 10 years ago about investing in the stock market and reflect on those, always fun. That's the stock market. That was Volume 6 in that series.

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The Motley Fool

JANUARY 28, 2024

In this podcast, Motley Fool host Ricky Mulvey and Jules van Binsbergen, a finance professor at the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School, discuss: Market sentiment. Disconnects between the real economy and financial markets. stock market is merely a "lucky survivor." Savings goals. Whether the U.S.

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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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The Motley Fool

MARCH 5, 2024

David Geck: Then again in August of 2010, I invested $614 in NVIDIA and it's $236,000. 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. David Gardner: That is absolutely spectacular.

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ClearMoney

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

Assuming an average 10% return, as the S&P 500 has returned historically, money invested in the stock market doubles every seven years.) Every day, we expect the stock market to go up. In order for an investment to offer the possibility of a return above money-market funds, it needs to carry risk.

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Pension Pulse

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

Having said this, the stock market is incredibly concentrated in a few names and the risks of something bad hitting us are on the rise here, which is why you should all take these 13F filings with a grain of salt here. That fund, Scion Capital, also boosted bets on Chinese e-commerce giants Alibaba and JD.com.

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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

JUNE 20, 2024

And the numbers speak for themselves: Amazon: if you invested $1,000 when we doubled down in 2010, you’d have $20,589 !* I'll say that when I was a teenager, like a lot of other folks, I started dabbling in stocks. I think I bought my first stock before I had any facial hair. At that time, was interested in mutual funds.

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ClearMoney

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

Motivated by the substantial payoff associated with successful timing, researchers over the years have examined a wide range of strategies based on analysis of earnings, dividends, interest rates, economic growth, investor sentiment, stock price patterns, and so on. 1As of January 31, the S&P 500 was down 5.17% for the year. 31, 2021.

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The Big Picture

MARCH 26, 2024

It was that era’s version of must see TV on the subject of, of the market. So I had some familiarity, but in advance of the interview, I also did more research on Marty on his side of the organization, which was the mutual fund, hedge fund investment newsletter side. It’s just performance chasing.

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The Big Picture

APRIL 8, 2024

And the stock market, you know, had a pretty big drop. And then it turns out, you know, the market, if you go from 91 forward market just sort of went up and business was good and it was good basically until maybe 2010. You had the bull market in the nineties. I keep reading s much low, like 25 and 30.

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The Motley Fool

AUGUST 7, 2024

Index funds have significantly outperformed their actively managed counterparts over long periods. For example, according to the folks at S&P Dow Jones Indices, over the past 15 years, the S&P 500 index outperformed a whopping 88% of managed large-cap mutual funds, and it outperformed 87% over the past decade.

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The Big Picture

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

NADIG: And trying to help people understand what that means for next week, and the next year, and the next decade, to position products underneath it, like ETFs in 1992, or model portfolios in 2000, or direct indexing in 2010. And right now we throw it into the stock market and we effectively use a tokenized system, right?

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