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The Motley Fool March 6, 2006 Joseph Khattab |
Invest Well, Sleep Well Your portfolio shouldn't keep you up at night. It is possible to beat the market with low-risk stocks. |
The Motley Fool September 25, 2010 Sean Williams |
How Volatility Can Be Your Friend There is a way to use a stock's volatility to your advantage and potentially increase your profit potential. |
The Motley Fool May 7, 2007 Chuck Saletta |
Washington Redskins Predict Secular Bear Market What an urban legend can teach you about investing. In investing, over time, all that really counts is the quality of a business, the strength of its moat against competition, and the value you get for your investing dollar. |
The Motley Fool March 8, 2004 Ben McClure |
Rumblings on Risk Forget beta. Find stocks that are already down and have the fundamental risk wrung out of them. Forget the science offered up by risk theory. If a stock has solid business fundamentals and is available at a significant discount to its value, the risk is lower and the prospect of reward is higher. |
The Motley Fool March 23, 2005 Chuck Saletta |
Catching the Hot Potatoes Diversification can protect your portfolio from the worst of a company's stumbles. |
The Motley Fool October 31, 2008 Karl Thiel |
Want the Highest Growth? One way investors try to identify opportunities is by chasing beta, the measure of an asset's volatility against a broader index. The basic idea is to buy high-beta stocks when you expect the market to start rising. |
The Motley Fool November 11, 2005 Jim Mueller |
Beta: The Alpha and Omega to Risk Analysis? To many people, beta is the be-all and end-all of risk analysis. Here, the author explores how beta is determined and then discusses its limitations and what else you should consider when looking at a company for investment. |
The Motley Fool March 2, 2005 Chuck Saletta |
Why Value Wins How a disciplined, value-focused approach to investing can turn the odds in your favor. |
The Motley Fool April 27, 2009 Brian Richards |
The Market's 10 Most Volatile Stocks As long-term-focused investors, we tend not to read much into a short-term volatility measure, but there are two key points to learn about these high volatility stocks. |
The Motley Fool January 19, 2005 Chuck Saletta |
Why Value Wins How a disciplined, value-focused approach to investing can turn the odds in your favor. |
The Motley Fool July 7, 2005 |
The Scoop on Beta Beta can help you grasp a stock's volatility. |
The Motley Fool June 24, 2009 Selena Maranjian |
Don't Rely on This Stock Measure Should you care about a stock's beta? It might be less of a meaningful sign of a great stock than you originally thought. |
The Motley Fool July 30, 2007 John Rosevear |
When Twice as Much Isn't Twice as Good The goal of asset allocation is to spread your investments among different classes of assets to achieve better overall performance with less volatility. How can you tell if your funds are really diversified? |
The Motley Fool October 1, 2011 Alex Planes |
How to Make Money in a Volatile Market Mitigate market mayhem with these consistent defensive stock superstars. |
The Motley Fool January 22, 2007 James Early |
Don't Lose Money Investors, how about combining low risk with a six percentage point yearly advantage? That's the power of dividends. |
The Motley Fool May 10, 2005 Mike Klein |
Risky Business? Wall Street fears market gyrations, but history shows volatility breeds profits. |
The Motley Fool April 12, 2004 Mathew Emmert |
Beat the Market With Less Risk You can achieve maximum returns without taking on the maximum risk. Learn how to make money in the stock market and sleep well at night, too. |
Financial Planning January 1, 2005 Bernard R. Horn |
Global Goodies It's not risky to invest overseas--in fact, it's riskier not to. Exchange rates and political and economic risks can mitigate returns, but experienced global equity managers know how to navigate foreign markets by making solid stock picks. |
The Motley Fool September 27, 2005 Chuck Saletta |
Superman Can't Save You The largest and most powerful advantage we have over the market, the one that's nearly universally fatal for institutional investors, is really quite simple. It's time. |
The Motley Fool March 24, 2006 Nathan Parmelee |
Your Returns Are Less Than Average Volatility is your friend when you're looking to purchase shares, but it kills returns in your portfolio. And while we can't eliminate volatility altogether, it can be reduced by focusing on companies that pay dividends -- or at least generate lots of cash. |
The Motley Fool March 20, 2006 Mathew Emmert |
You Had It Right the First Time If you find yourself sitting on a properly diversified portfolio of companies you believe in, don't be afraid to simply build out the best positions you already own. After all, you were probably right the first time. |
The Motley Fool October 21, 2009 Selena Maranjian |
Assessing Risk the Right Way Avoid the wrong companies and you might avoid profits, too. |
The Motley Fool June 23, 2006 Tim Beyers |
Prepare for Any Market How do you invest well when the market is so schizophrenic? Embrace the strategy that beat the market for 50 years. Market-beating dividend-driven returns can still be had. |
The Motley Fool December 19, 2005 Mathew Emmert |
The Lifetime Investment Strategy Let the power of dividends build you a portfolio that will stand the tests of time. |
The Motley Fool August 13, 2008 Chuck Saletta |
Beat the S&P 500 -- Guaranteed! Put a too-often-neglected investing tool, reinvesting index fund dividends, to work for you. |
Financial Advisor June 2004 Kevin M. Wilson |
Why Value Beats Growth Portfolios using asset allocation combined with value investing produce better financial results. How should you advise clients to invest? |
The Motley Fool November 20, 2006 Dan Caplinger |
It's All Greek to Me Finance's unique combination of mathematical and social sciences makes the field a linguistic battleground among academics. As ways to express financial concepts, alpha and beta are relatively simple. |
The Motley Fool November 8, 2004 Mathew Emmert |
Beat the Market With Less Risk You can achieve maximum returns without taking on the maximum risk. Here's how to make money in the stock market without sacrificing your right to sleep at night. |
The Motley Fool October 6, 2005 Chuck Saletta |
Waiting on Greatness Waiting is often the hardest part of investing. But it's also usually the most lucrative. |
The Motley Fool July 29, 2005 Nathan Parmelee |
Pile Into the Boomer Plan Dividend-paying stocks are vital to anyone's portfolio -- from retirees to recent grads. |
The Motley Fool July 30, 2008 James Early |
How to Turn a Water Heater Into a Ferrari Studies soundly confirm dividend investing to outperform non-dividend investing by a hefty margin. |
The Motley Fool May 11, 2005 Brian Richards |
What Every Portfolio Needs Want a strong core investment? Look no further than dividend-paying stocks. |
The Motley Fool August 3, 2005 Tim Hanson |
The Market's Money-Back Guarantee By finding the market's rising dividends, you are rewarded twofold. You ballast your portfolio with cash and put the power of superior companies to work for you. |
The Motley Fool November 9, 2005 Chuck Saletta |
Cover Your Assets The key point for building a successful value portfolio is determining how to reduce your risk without reducing your expected return along the way. Commission-hungry brokers often sell a strategy known as portfolio insurance, the purchase of derivative securities called "put options," to reduce an investor's risk of loss. |
The Motley Fool September 7, 2004 Salim Haji |
How Many Stocks Should You Own? Diversification into stocks you don't fully understand could increase risk within your portfolio. |
The Motley Fool June 13, 2011 Sean Williams |
Beat a Volatile Market With These 15 Stocks Low betas and steady dividends could give you market-beating returns. |
BusinessWeek September 12, 2005 Lewis Braham |
Building A Focused Fund Of Your Own Portfolios of under 50 stocks have outrun the market with less risk. Here's how they do it. |
The Motley Fool September 7, 2011 Matt Koppenheffer |
3 Stocks to Play Stock-Market Defense Worried about the state of the economy? These three stocks can help defend your portfolio. |
The Motley Fool September 26, 2008 James Early |
How to Turn a Water Heater Into a Ferrari The investing secret that could change what you drive. |
The Motley Fool December 16, 2005 Rich Smith |
Profit From Playing the Odds Historically, the stock market has risen in value by 10.5% per year. It has also only risen in two years out of every three. So, does the market always go up, or only sometimes? Here, the author runs the numbers and tries his hand at a bit of revisionist history. |
The Motley Fool January 24, 2006 Shruti Basavaraj |
Roller-Coaster Stocks Just how far ahead of the market average can you get? Picking stocks based solely on volatility isn't the answer. Big risk can equal big loss, and there's no guarantee from the market's least volatile stocks, either. |
The Motley Fool May 16, 2008 James Early |
How to Turn a Water Heater Into a Ferrari This investing secret could change what you drive. Read on for more. |
The Motley Fool June 28, 2005 John Reeves |
10 Monster Stocks for the Next Decade Trailing the leader at the All-Star Break? Buy yourself a blue chip. |
Fast Company May 2000 Rekha Balu |
Fast Fixes, Loyal Customers My Smartest Mistake: Mark Gainey, president, Kana Communications. |
The Motley Fool September 27, 2004 Mathew Emmert |
How to Be a Dividend Investor Here are the tools you need to build a diverse portfolio of high-quality, dividend-paying investments. Read on to learn a few things about evaluating the power of the payout. |
The Motley Fool November 14, 2005 Tim Beyers |
Guarantee Your Returns Learning to invest is easy. Learning to beat the market isn't. That's why, over the course of decades, some of the best money managers in the business have relied on dividends for help. |
The Motley Fool April 13, 2006 Charly Travers |
A Foolish Baby Shower: Vanguard 500 Index While returns over the next 18 years may not match those of the last 20, it's likely that returns will be between 7%-10% a year for baby, and that's a pretty good start for building a portfolio that will last a lifetime. |
The Motley Fool October 22, 2004 Chuck Saletta |
When Crystal Balls Break Proper diversification is one method by which investors can reduce the risk to their portfolio as a whole without significantly compromising their overall expected returns, making it a key tool for any value investor's kit. |
The Motley Fool January 17, 2006 Mathew Emmert |
The Fed-Proof Portfolio Many seem to want to "position" their portfolios for the next phase in the market. But you can accomplish your long-term goals far more effectively by amassing a portfolio of tried-and-true, dividend-paying stocks and staying the course. |
CFO November 1, 2006 Don Durfee |
Lowering the Bar How market beta can make hurdle rates look artificially low -- just because the market has become more risky doesn't necessarily mean your business has become more secure. |