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100 Reasons Why Your Financial Advisor Should Not Use Mutual Funds

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Market: The stock market is made up of thousands of choices and one easy way to gain exposure to it is via mutual funds. Costs/Expenses : ETFs typically have lower expense ratios compared to mutual funds. Tax Efficiencies : ETFs are generally more tax-efficient than mutual funds.

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4 Reasons to Avoid a 401(k) for Your Retirement Savings

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The bulk of them are managed by mutual fund companies, with most of those companies limiting your investment choices to their family of funds. In fact, you may not even have access to that fund company's entire fund lineup.

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Prediction: CDs Will Earn Less Than This Investment Over the Next 5 Years

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When it comes to the S&P 500 -- a stock market index that tracks the stock performance of 500 of the largest companies on the stock exchanges -- it's all about digging into past performance. As the last week or so has shown us, the market falls and rises, often based on whatever's going on in the news.

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Here's How Billionaires Buy Stocks

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A self-directed brokerage account is the same kind you or I might use and has the same types of stock investing options, including individual stocks, exchange-traded funds, options trading, mutual funds, bonds, and real estate investment trusts (REITs).

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Missed Out on the Bull Market Recovery? 3 ETFs to Help You Build Wealth for Decades.

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The reason is that solid dividend-paying stocks generally do outperform their non-dividend-paying peers. Number-crunching performed by mutual fund company Hartford indicates that since 1973, S&P 500 stocks with a long history of dividend growth boast an average annual return of just over 10% versus a much more modest annual gain of 4.3%

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Does the Grayscale Bitcoin ETF Still Make Sense for New Crypto Investors?

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From the fund's public market entrance in May 2015 to the end of 2020, the Grayscale fund averaged a 37% price premium over its holdings in pure Bitcoin (CRYPTO: BTC). Early Bitcoin adopters appreciated the Grayscale fund's availability in ordinary stock-exchange accounts. in the ETF era.

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Here's How Nvidia Can Make You Money With Less Risk

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That's understandable considering the amount of coverage the stock market receives in the news. Also, a recent Gallup survey shows that 62% of Americans are invested in the stock market -- either in individual stocks, stock mutual funds, or stock exchange-traded funds (ETFs).