Are you ready to take control of your money so it works harder for you in 2026? Here’s the playbook to get your finances in ...

Monday’s recovery of prices of technology stocks may have caused some sighs of relief, but the S&P 500 remains highly concentrated. This means that, if you have money in an S&P 500 index fund, you ...

Index funds are wonderful tools for investors because they offer diversification for low fees. But some index funds are more concentrated than you might realize. And if you watched your S&P 500 index ...

Balanced investment portfolios are out of favor, but don’t count them out. The odds are good that a conservative 60% stock/40% bond portfolio will outperform the S&P 500 SPX over the next decade.

Investors need to alter their strategies as their objectives change over the years. If you are near the beginning of a multidecade career, a strategy of making regular investments, mainly in stocks, ...

Thursday’s sharp stock-market selloff included a 1.7% decline for the S&P 500 and a 2.4% decline for its information-technology sector. That may not seem to be a problem, with the sector posting such ...