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3 Ways to Approach Investing When You're a Freelancer or Gig Worker

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Stick to passive investments There are two basic types of investing: Active: Choosing individual investments yourself. Active investors usually pick stocks in an attempt to beat the market. Passive investing is the easier and better choice for most investors. With a traditional IRA, contributions are tax deductible.

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Billionaire Bond King Bill Gross Says This 10% Ultra-High-Yield Dividend Stock Is "Best of the Bunch" For Pipeline Master Limited Partnerships

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While he is no longer part of PIMCO, Gross is still an active investor. The investors then pay their portion of the company's profits at their individual tax rate. This is a big selling point for investors, as they can deduct certain items to offset capital gains taxes.

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Investing $100 Per Month in This ETF Could Make You a Multimillionaire

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To relatively new investors the suggestion seems outrageous. The whole point of being an active investor is to outperform the stock market! As most veteran investors can attest, however, consistently beating the market is a rarity. Just matching the overall market's gains isn't a particularly impressive feat.

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Get Rich With This Boring but Unstoppable Stock

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Indeed, often times the "less is more" crowd ends up with better returns than active investors. There's a largely overlooked name more investors might want to consider adding to their portfolio regardless of their long-term goals and risk tolerances. There's also nothing wrong with a boring, passive approach to picking stocks.

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Reflecting on Financial Freedom

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On to Number 7, still here in the Foolish Moves category, smarter moves made by people who are already active investors. With investing I've usually been strict about being tax-efficient," Kim writes, "optimizing as much as possible with the majority of my investing taking place in retirement accounts. Thank you, Philip Durell.

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Baxter signs definitive agreement to divest its BioPharma Solutions business to Advent International and Warburg Pincus for $4.25 billion

Advent International

billion in cash, subject to certain closing adjustments, with net after-tax proceeds currently estimated to be approximately $3.4 Baxter intends to utilize the after-tax proceeds to reduce its debt, consistent with the company’s stated capital allocation priorities. Under the terms of the definitive agreement, Baxter will receive $4.25

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Tencent (TCEHY) Q4 2023 Earnings Call Transcript

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Income tax expense rose by 111% year on year to 9.7 billion renminbi, driven by operating profit growth and increased withholding tax provision. You know, we're very active investors across the game industry. On a non-IFRS basis, share of profit increased to 4.5 billion renminbi, up from a profit of 3.1