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5 Successful Financial Habits of Baby Boomers

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They invest heavily in stocks and mutual funds Baby boomers have the largest percentage of their wealth in stocks and mutual funds. Many experts recommend subtracting your age from 100 to determine the percentage of your portfolio that should be in stocks.

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U.S. Money Supply Is Increasing Again and Could Portend a Big Stock Market Move: 2 Vanguard ETFs to Buy Now

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It includes physical currency, demand deposits, savings deposits, and money market mutual funds. Nick Gerli with Reventure Consulting researched the history of M2 from 1870 through the present. Its portfolio currently includes 1,403 stocks. Economists typically prefer using a money supply measure called M2.

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A Few Years From Now, You'll Wish You'd Bought This Undervalued Crypto

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The Boston Consulting Group thinks real-world asset tokenization could be a $16 trillion market opportunity by 2030. Most likely, the trend will take off with financial products -- such as mutual funds and bonds -- that make the most sense for converting into digital tokens. Taking a more conservative view, McKinsey & Co.

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Interval Funds: 6 Things to Know Before You Invest

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Interval funds are closed-end investment companies that might appeal to investors looking for different ways to diversify their portfolio by providing access and exposure to illiquid strategies or alternative assets. In addition, you can purchase shares in an interval fund on a daily basis at NAV, similar to an open-end mutual fund.

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Ready to Start Investing?

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A portfolio of stocks is going to do well over time. If your kid's 14 right now, don't put their college fund in the stock market. They might have high costs or you might have to be able to just be restricted to the selection of mutual funds within that account. You're not limited to that menu of mutual funds.

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Missed Out on the Bull Market Recovery? 10 ETFs to Help You Build Wealth for Decades.

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Exchange-traded funds (ETFs) are worth thinking about for this. (An An ETF is a mutual fund-like security that trades like a stock.) Investing in an S&P 500 index fund is like betting on the future of the American economy. Together, its holdings represent around 80% of the entire U.S. stock market's value.

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Want $1 Million in Retirement? 9 ETFs to Buy Now and Hold for Decades.

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To aim for better returns than that, you might add lots of carefully chosen individual stocks to your portfolio. Alternatively, you might want to consider sector exchange-traded funds (ETFs) for sectors you're bullish on. An ETF is very much like a mutual fund, filled with a variety of securities and invested in by many shareholders.