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By Mike Larson On December 29, 201708:22 AM Eastern
The best-performing, highest-rated ETFs. The best-performing, highest-rated stocks. The best-performing fixed-income investments. I’ve spent a lot of time recently looking back at which trends and...
By Gavin Magor On December 28, 201709:05 AM Eastern
How much do you value safety when it comes to investing? That’s what the choice between a traditional variable annuity and the next two competing products in our educational series boils down...
By Mandeep Rai On December 27, 201709:09 AM Eastern
Robert Frost’s “The Road Not Taken” is one of the American poet’s most well-known works, famous for its depiction of two roads diverging in a wood. What I’m most interested in today, though, is...
By Gavin Magor On December 26, 201709:14 AM Eastern
The broad stock market has had a solid run in the first year of the Trump administration. But bank stocks have left the averages in the dust thanks to stronger economic growth, promises of...
By Mike Larson On December 22, 201711:20 AM Eastern
Bonds. Sometimes I feel like they’re the Rodney Dangerfield of the investing world. They don’t get no respect. But the truth is, they’re a crucial component to your investment portfolio. And...
By Gavin Magor On December 21, 201710:20 AM Eastern
Last week we discussed variable annuities, how they work, and how they measure up to the popular 401(k) plan. Now, in Part Two of our series, we’re going to examine IRAs – another alternative to...
By Mandeep Rai On December 20, 201702:56 PM Eastern
Maybe it’s just the time of year, what with holiday displays, music, and lights surrounding all of us. Or maybe Wall Street traders are dipping into the eggnog a little early. But whatever the...
By Gavin Magor On December 19, 201708:27 AM Eastern
The Federal Reserve just made its third interest rate hike this year, and the fifth since our long, slow recovery began back in 2009 (Seems like yesterday, but that was eight years ago!) More...
By Mike Larson On December 18, 201708:00 AM Eastern
On Friday, I shared my list of the best-performing, highest-rated ETFs of 2017. Now it’s time to do the same thing for STOCKS! Our Weiss Ratings database contains more than 13,700 stocks, so...
By Mike Larson On December 15, 201708:00 AM Eastern
Everybody loves a winner, right?
Sadly, my New England Patriots were anything but one this past Sunday against Miami. But the same can’t be said about 2017’s best-performing, top-rated ETFs!...