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Vanguard's Latest Forecast for Global Stock Market Returns: The importance of economic growth and market valuations for emerging and developed market returns

Gold Versus U.S. Stocks Over the Past Two Generations: How has gold performed in recent decades and what may the future bring?

Fairholme Fund Has New Analysts and Major Portfolio Changes: Is this long-term winner still worthy of your investment dollars?

2-for-1 Special: The Stock Split Indicator: What current stock split activity many indicate about future stock prices

Are Exchange-Traded Funds Superior to Mutual Funds?: Update: May 6 "Flash Crash" highlights some ETF pitfalls

Analyzing the Dow 30 Stocks: Five-Year Charts: Keeping perspective on where the markets have been and may be heading

Recipes for Your Long-Term Investing Success: How do you decide how much to put in what asset classes?

Update: Highly Recommended Mutual Funds: The No-Load Fund Analyst's list of most highly recommended funds...

Money Market Funds Are Paying Near Zero Percent: Short duration bond funds offer higher yields and guard better against rate rise risk than most bond funds

Small Caps, Large Caps? What's a Better Value?: How about growth versus value stocks?

Are Leveraged Exchange-Traded Funds (ETFs) a Better Mousetrap?: The role that this rapidly growing ETF segment should play in your portfolio

No Load Fund Analyst Newsletter Boosts Stock Allocation: Makes more changes in bond holdings as well

A Fund Closed Many Years Ago Now Open and Worth Considering: An investing legend recommended it many years back

U.S. Investors Piling Into Bond Funds: What are the expected returns and risks of bond funds going forward?

What Most Investors Don't Know About Taxation of Gold: Gold advocates rarely disclose this shortcoming

How Safe Are Government Bonds?: Most investors haven't a clue but this little known index provides insight

No-Load Fund Analyst Makes Change to Emerging Markets' Allocation: Changing bond market leads to addition of new fund

Growth Versus Value Stocks: It's been a long debated issue...which is better and when?

Earnings Yield on Stocks: A Little Used Stock Market Indicator: It's flashing a buy signal in a neglected overseas market

Evaluating Corporate Bonds versus Treasury Bonds: Is it worth chasing corporate bond's higher yields given their greater default risk?

Is Gold Headed Still Higher?: With inflation fears rising, gold and other precious metals are surging

Some Say Do It Quarterly, Monthly, Even Daily to Boost Your Returns: Rebalancing sounds good in theory but does it really work?

How Worried Should You be About High Dividend Stock Funds That Show a Loss?: Q: I don't understand the WisdomTree exchange-traded funds (ETFs). How can so many of their new ETFs pay good dividends if they've lost money since inception?

Investors Fleeing to Treasuries Often Don't Understand Their Options: Focus on TIPS (Treasury Inflation-Protected Securities)

Understanding the Hidden Fees in Mutual Funds: Does the average global stock fund really cost investors 3 percent in annual fees?

When Investing in Bonds, Should You Use Bond Funds or Individual Bonds?: Some folks misconstrue the benefits of each and miss other important considerations

Portfolio Update: Active Equity Fund Recommendations: The No Load Fund Analyst's model portfolio for active equity investors

Should You Invest in the S&P 500 Index?: Its low costs and exposure to 500 larger, mostly global companies is appealing but it has a major, often overlooked drawback.

The Warren Buffett of Bond Fund Managers: It's tough for active managers to beat a bond index especially over the long-term but this manager continues to do so

This International Fund has Outperformed an Index Fund by 400% Over the Past 21 Years: And, it did so with consistent returns and lower volatility than the index, a strong management team and competitive expenses

Buy the Manager, Not the Fund: Vanguard closed its Primecap fund but there are other smart ways to access this leading growth stock fund manager

Has Fairholme Fund Manager Bruce Berkowitz Lost His Golden Touch?: An update on questions raised by star fund manager’s investing decisions and prowess after negative 2008 showing.

Dogs of the Dow Investment Strategy: Does this simple method of investing in higher yielding, large company stocks produce market beating returns?

Stock Pickers Should Start Their Search Here: If you like picking your own stocks, here's a list of 72 companies with a strong dividend history and ability to pay going forward

Investing in Stocks or Mutual Funds: Some folks can do better investing in individual stocks, right?

The Best Index Funds and Exchange-Traded Funds: More folks should use them and those who do should use the best ones

Invest More in Stocks Now to Make Up for Last Year's Losses?: Q: I am 65 year-old professor and thinking about retiring in about three years. I have let TIAA-CREF do my investing in my retirement plan...I want to be a bit aggressive so I can make back some of the money I lost in the market over the last year, but I don't want to lose a bunch either...

The Big Mutual Fund Investing Decision: To Index or Not to Index?: How heavily should you use index funds in your portfolio?

A Research Report on Gold Worth Reading: Litman & Gregory does solid analysis and has no vested interest in pitching gold which is why investors considering gold should read this...

Tips for Trading Exchange Traded Funds (ETFs): Based upon their own research and trading experiences, the No-Load Fund Analyst offers the following guidelines when trading Exchange-Traded Funds (ETFs)

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