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

The Motley Fool

However, I'm telling my Gen Z friends to skip CDs and invest their money elsewhere. Debt, especially debt stemming from higher education, is the hallmark of my generation, as are low savings balances. For those of us with cash to invest, putting money in a CD comes at a high opportunity cost.

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See Why Young Women Have One Big Advantage in Investing

The Motley Fool

The good news is: Investing is not a boys' club or a man's game. Approximately 60% of women invest in the stock market -- and they're great at it. But some of the best real-world results go to people who just keep saving, investing, and earning returns year after year.

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Rule Breaker Investing: Essays From Yesterday, Vol. 7

The Motley Fool

That's this week's page Breaker preview to pre order my final word on stock picking shaped by three decades of market crushing success. But I assure you, there's nothing random or irrational about stock investing. Over the long term, if the US economy grows, so too will the stock market.

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Motley Fool Stories, Vol. 6: Sports, Family & Finance

The Motley Fool

Most of the time that I was in law, both at the law firm and with City of Philadelphia, I knew I wanted to do something other than law and litigation and didn't know what it was until I found the Motley Fool, and it blend completely unique of education and investing and humor. I was just there for a liberal arts education.

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Are Alternative Investments the Key to Diversifying Your Portfolio?

Fortune Financial

Lower Correlation Another advantage of alternative investments is their lower correlation with traditional asset classes, which means that their performance may not be closely tied to the ups and downs of the stock market or other conventional investments. Contact us today!

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Are Alternative Investments the Key to Diversifying Your Portfolio?

Fortune Financial

Lower Correlation Another advantage of alternative investments is their lower correlation with traditional asset classes, which means that their performance may not be closely tied to the ups and downs of the stock market or other conventional investments. Contact us today!

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Transcript: Aswath Damodaran

The Big Picture

ASWATH DAMODARAN, KERSCHNER FAMILY CHAIR IN FINANCE EDUCATION, NYU STERN SCHOOL OF BUSINESS: I’m glad to be back. And the only reason I can think for why dividends became the key way of returning cash is I went back to the history of markets. Bond markets preceded stock markets. I know you will also.

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