I recently met a married couple of university professors who were interested in improving their investment portfolios and getting a sound financial plan in place.

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With 2011 now over, a lot of us are looking at our holdings and assessing what worked well and what didn’t. There were Blue Chips that did phenomenally well — way better than we expected — and boosted our profitability. ...

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If you learned of an investment that had returned an average of 8.6 percent over the last 25 years — through the tech bubble, the real estate bubble and the “lost” decade — you might want to learn more. If ...

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In an environment where stocks and bonds breed feelings of uncertainty, where can an investor turn for steady income and favorable odds of appreciation? Dividend stocks have historically been a refuge from volatility because of their ability to outperform the ...

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Almost 20 years ago, George Costanza pitched a novel idea for a television show: “Nothing happens!” he gleefully told puzzled NBC executives. You might not want to let this Seinfeld scene inspire your investment strategy. In today’s environment, investors might ...

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For many investors, August probably brought on a couple of bouts of ticker terror — that horrible feeling that comes when every stock symbol on the screen is red. One indicator, the Dow Jones industrial average, plunged from 12,143.24 to ...

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