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3 Reasons Gen Z Should Skip CDs and Invest Their Money Elsewhere

The Motley Fool

To my friends who can stomach it, I'd typically suggest putting money not in a CD, but rather, in the stock market. The stock market offers high returns over long time horizons. That's a couple of percentage points better than what the best CDs offer. Since its inception, the S&P 500 has compounded about 7.4%

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Could MercadoLibre Be the Next Amazon?

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MELI data by YCharts As you can see, both stocks have trounced the S&P 500 since 2014. They've beaten the market by an even wider margin over their complete histories. MercadoLibre and Amazon have found success on the stock market by following similar playbooks. Image source: Getty Images.

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One-stop shop for asset servicing solutions

Private Equity Wire

In turn, stock markets showed decreased appetite for IPOs leading to challenges with a traditional investment exit strategy for private equity fund investments, a drop in asset valuations and a subsequent slowdown in fundraising due to liquidity challenges.

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You Can Do Better Than the S&P 500. Buy This ETF Instead.

The Motley Fool

When talking about the stock market, investors view the S&P 500 as the key barometer for gauging how things are going. If possible, a standard best practice is to dollar-cost average. Plus, it eliminates the need to try and time the market. Adding savings on a regular basis can supercharge returns over time.

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1 Outdated Retirement Rule You'll Want to Forget ASAP, and 2 to Use Instead

The Motley Fool

The rules that worked in previous decades might not lead to the same outcomes thanks to forces such as inflation, changing interest rates, and stock market volatility. The best practice is usually a systematic and measurable approach. One such idea is that you need to replace 75% of your income in retirement.

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Is It Too Late to Buy These 3 Brilliant Passive Income Stocks?

The Motley Fool

The stock market has had a strong run over the last 10 years. Many stocks have delivered even higher total returns. The deal will be immediately accretive to its earnings while enhancing its growth profile as the company institutes its best practices to boost the income of Life Storage's legacy facilities.

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"Rule Breaker Investing" Mailbag: Talking Stocks and Options

The Motley Fool

You took the time to share a photograph of the notes that you'd taken throughout the Market Cap Game Show, including your own guesses, and what you learned from it. I think that's such a best practice. We have a lot of fun doing the Market Cap Game Show. The date was June 16th, 2021. We were all penned up due to COVID.

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