The Motley Fool

JULY 22, 2024

Mutual fund company Vanguard Group reports that the average workplace-retirement account for clients aged 65 or older is only $272,588, while the median (or midpoint) balance for these folks is a much smaller $88,488. This inflation-adjusted cap was only $17,500 back in 2014, however, and a mere $9,240 in 1994. This might help.

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The Motley Fool

MAY 29, 2024

The stock market is a great tool for protecting and growing your hard-earned nest egg, and by deciding to take the leap, you already have an advantage. Nearly 30% of Americans don't invest in the stock market at all , according to Gallup data. What's an exchange-traded fund? stock market.

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The Motley Fool

JUNE 4, 2024

Over that time period, there have been only three years where more than half of large-cap mutual funds beat the market. Even then, it was a slim majority, with 55% the highest level of market-beating funds in 2007, right before the market crashed. SPX data by YCharts. But can it? over the past 10 years.

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Investment Writing

JULY 6, 2023

21, 2014, made edits on May 28 and October 24, 2021; October 12, 2022; and July 6, 2023. ” Note: I corrected some typos on Dec.

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The Motley Fool

JUNE 10, 2024

I question how socially responsible mutual funds are because do you know the manager of that fund? I appreciate our mutual fund friends. I'm sure there are some very good socially responsible mutual funds, but I question whether it's socially responsible to invest in them. Does that person know you?

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The Big Picture

AUGUST 29, 2022

But I covered derivatives at first, and then I cover mutual funds. I worked for a (inaudible) called Fund Action and did that for a little while, and then went — I met a guy named Duff Ferguson at AllianceBernstein. They’d be the biggest active mutual fund to shop times over. RITHOLTZ: It’s …. He was the P.R.

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The Motley Fool

JANUARY 25, 2024

Because in most years, stocks outperform cash. The sooner you get the money into the stock market, the better off you'll be. That means, I don't know, 20-30% of the time or so, you would have been better off gradually moving into the market. That's just the risk you're going to have to decide to take.

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