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Why the outlook is positive for dividend-centric strategies

With volatility making a return, many investors are taking a step back and reassessing their positions

What Will Win the Next 5 Years in Financial Services?

To keep up with potentially disruptive competitors, financial firms must embrace connected data and planning.

Finding Stable Dividends in a Rough Market

In a world of slowing dividend growth and potentially rising interest rates, your dividend investing strategy may need some tweaks.

Here's the best financial advice the country's top advisors ever got

Financial advisors need money tips, too. In fact, sometimes a salient piece of advice led them into the industry. We asked advisors from firms that made the FA 100 list for 2019 for the best money and investing advice tips they ever received.

A Beginner’s Guide to Choosing a Stock Broker

Choosing a broker can be as challenging as choosing a stock. You have to be familiar with different investing styles…

Terrible Financial Advice: Top 10 Tips You Shouldn't Follow

It seems like everyone from bloggers to your next-door neighbor doles out financial advice these days. It can be difficult figuring out who to believe, and bad tips can pop up as frequently as thunderstorms in the summertime

Impulse Buys Make You Feel Good, But At What Price? : Enemy of Debt

According to the 2012 Shopper Engagement Study, we as consumers make grocery shopping decisions in the store at a rate of 76%, causing us to spend more than originally intended. Even with the best laid plans, coupons, shopping circulars, and a specific list statistics show we are drawn to spend more. Research shows tough current economic conditions cause us to “splurge” at the grocery store for psychological reasons we don’t even realize at the time. As I pondered that thought I realized even…

Stock Brokers vs. Underwriters: What's the Difference?

Learning about underwriting and agency roles at a brokerage can give insight into how securities are issued and traded.

Rotating Stocks To Grow Portfolio Earnings

My portfolio strategy is to grow the overall earnings per share of my portfolio holdings. It's lunacy to effortlessly rely on the stock market to provide reliab

How Dividend-Paying Stocks Can Energize Your Portfolio

They can help provide you a nice income stream, but be aware that they do carry some risks.

How To Choose Stocks For Your Defensive Dividend Portfolio

We're pretty much in a 10-year bull market. Are you looking to be more defensive in your dividend portfolio? Companies with a track record of stable earnings an

Does Your Retirement Portfolio Need More Stocks?

Low interest rates and longer lifespans suggest stocks are necessary, even in retirement.

RUDD: Avoid all distractions, just pick stocks and build a portfolio

Expose your flank, and they will be on you like a pack of hungry wolves. Weakness is detected in the same way sharks are drawn to blood in the ocean, and

How to Diversify Your Portfolio Beyond Stocks

Find out how to get diversified in asset classes beyond stocks to reduce portfolio risk. Learn how diversification can help you reach your financial goals.

5 Building Block Stocks For A Diversified Income Producing Portfolio

I want investments representing decades of previous dividend payments, potential future dividend increases, and generating a reliable yield on my capital.

3 Stocks You Don't Know Could Boost your Portfolio Hugely

An engineering consultancy business, an infrastructure investment fund, and a chemicals company all have significant upside.

Why Your Portfolio Needs Plenty of Stocks, Whatever Your Age

Most investment counselors tell people to reduce holdings of common stock as they get older, but that advice is poor, a former chief economist writes.

5 Construction Stocks to Build a Strong Portfolio

These construction stocks are worth adding to your portfolio.

Do I Need a Broker to Buy Stocks?

If you are interested in buying stocks, you will need a brokerage—but not necessarily a broker—in all but the rarest cases of purchasing equities.

Why Dividend Stocks & ETFs Belong in Your Portfolio