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How to Profit From the Market's Rocky Road Ahead

Steve Romick, Manager, FPA Crescent Fund (FPACX)Go-anywhere value investor "Of the federal debt outstanding, 48% of Treasuries mature within two years. So $6.5 trillion to $7 trillion of new debt needs to be sold over that...

2 Key Numbers to Understanding Bond Funds

Yes, yields could fall further. That would be a boon for investors because bond prices move inversely with interest rates. But let's get real: Rates can't fall below 0%, and they could theoretically rise to the moon.All the...

Great Days at BlackRock

Just how much is $3.4 trillion? It is more than the gross domestic product of most nations, including France, the U.K. and Brazil. It is more than twice the size of the largest U.S. budget deficit on record (the one for the...

10 Great Mutual Funds That Deliver High Income

After all we've suffered over the past decade, it's easy to see why we're flocking to the investment equivalent of comfort food. Heaps of supposedly super-safe Treasury bonds help us sleep at night after a diet of stocks left...

How Biases Affect Your Portfolio

If you're a young, single man from Oklahoma, and you've been burned in the stock market, you should read this column carefully. But even if you're not, read on. You can minimize money-related mistakes by learning about...

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Basics of Money

Master the Financial Aid Process

Applying for financial aid can be intimidating and confusing. That's why so many scams offer to do the work for you...

529 Plan FAQs

Editor's note: This story has been updated since it originally was published. Since Kiplinger's first wrote about...

How to Start Investing

You want a home of your own, an education for your kids, a comfortable retirement someday and a little fun along...

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