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Long-term investing is a win-win. It's good for investors — and also for the companies they invest in. But the focus of most investors is...

For women to improve their financial wellbeing takes the buy-in of their partners as well.

By LARRY SWEDROE While investors may believe equities provide some protection from inflation (a firm’s debt obligations are inflated...

There are many highly technical books about saving and investing. This isn’t one of them. And that’s not a bad thing. In fact, NICK...

By LARRY SWEDROE Sustainable investing has grown dramatically in the past decade. By 2020, environmental, social and governance (ESG)...

Robin writes: An important concept for investors to grasp is that stock markets don't go up and down, hand in hand, with the health of...

By LARRY SWEDROE Nobel Prize-winning economists Franco Modigliani and Merton Miller are perhaps most famous for their proposition that,...

By LARRY SWEDROE The first chapter in my book Investment Mistakes Even Smart People Make and How to Avoid Them is on overconfidence,...

By CRAIG LAZZARA Throughout this year’s market turmoil, dividend strategies have been among the most reliable sources of relative, if not...

Passive investors can't be active owners? Nonsense. As ROBIN POWELL explains, a growing number of financial technology firms are helping...

The Shiller cyclically adjusted (for inflation) price-to-earnings ratio, referred to as the CAPE 10 because it averages the last 10...

Robin writes: Stock markets respond to news, and sometimes bad news comes thick and fast. That's just what's happened in the last couple...

One of the biggest leading indicators of people’s tendency to be swayed by bad investment advice is in their susceptibility to put their...

Academic research, including the 2015 study Does Realized Skewness Predict the Cross-Section of Equity Returns and the 2019 study...

Amid market volatility and an accelerating transfer of intergenerational wealth, the need for sound financial advice has arguably never been greater. But Australia has been fighting a mass exodus of advisers from the profession. Now, at last, there is hope of a reversal. As one of the world’s most wealthy and developed economies, Australia has never been short of resources. It is one of the world’s top five producers of most of the globe’s key mineral commodities. And, accord

By LARRY SWEDROE The increased popularity of ESG investing has been accompanied by a rise in research into the subject. The heightened...

Robin writes: As TEBI readers know, a fundamental problem (arguably the fundamental problem) with the investing industry is that the...

Small-cap stocks essentially come in two varieties — small growth and small value. So which type of small-cap has historically produced...

For keen students of the financial markets, the resurgence of value has been one of the biggest stories of 2022 so far. As CRAIG LAZZARA...

Arguably the most reliable predictor of future fund performance is cost: the less you pay, the higher your net returns are likely to be....