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By Mike Larson On January 22, 201808:08 AM Eastern
I’m not a big horse racing guy. But I do enjoy watching the occasional live event. My wife and I usually hit up Arlington Park just outside Chicago for a few races when we go up North to visit her...
By Gavin Magor On January 18, 201808:00 AM Eastern
Thinking about your long-term care options isn’t something many of us want to do. It involves asking delicate questions – of ourselves and our loved ones. Given the surging cost of care, one of...
By Gavin Magor On January 16, 201808:00 AM Eastern
After years of scraping along at virtually zero, U.S. interest rates are starting to shoot higher!
One factor is the Federal Reserve. It raised rates in mid-December and signaled to expect three...
By Mike Larson On January 8, 201808:00 AM Eastern
Last week wasn’t just a holiday week at the Larson household. It marked a family milestone: We dropped my stepson off at college for the first time. Naturally, we’re apprehensive about some of...
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 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 Gavin Magor On December 14, 201708:00 AM Eastern
As the end of 2017 approaches, naturally our minds turn to thoughts of holidays past and present, good times spent with family and friends, the joy of watching our children and grandchildren open...
By Mandeep Rai On December 13, 201708:00 AM Eastern
My colleague Mike Larson just wrote about the Bitcoin Bonanza, and how the best-performing ETF in our database of more than 2,100 such products is a play on the cryptocurrency. But right below...
By Jon D. Markman On December 11, 201702:00 PM Eastern
In movies and novels, overnight success stories are frequent. Real life doesn’t work that way. It takes years of hard work, vision and at least one gigantic bet-the-farm moment.
This week,...