So many investment choices, so many potential portfolio decisions. The inventory of stocks, bonds, funds and other financial assets for sale is big enough to fill a big-box store. But there’s a ...

Three simple buy-and-hold portfolios are evaluated for retirement based on comments from my last article. Six Vanguard Mutual Funds are evaluated using Portfolio Visualizer from January 2015 through ...

An average investor earns just 5.2% annually over the past 20 years due to timing errors and poor allocation. The 80% S&P 500 Low Volatility ETF & 20% IShares 10-Year Treasury Bond Index ETF could be ...

As we survey the wreckage of our portfolios in the new year, it's worth considering this: You can beat the great majority of investment professionals by employing simple strategies that use low-cost ...

Angelica Leicht is the senior editor for the Managing Your Money section for CBSNews.com, where she writes and edits articles on a range of personal finance topics. Angelica previously held editing ...

Carla Tardi is a technical editor and digital content producer with 25+ years of experience at top-tier investment banks and money-management firms. Thomas J. Brock is a CFA and CPA with more than 20 ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Catherine Brock covers personal finance and investing. The hardest part of investing for retirement is budgeting ample ...

If you like to keep things simple with your ETFs, then the SPDR Portfolio S&P 500 High Dividend ETF could be for you. Here's why the SPDR fund could be the best dividend ETF for you -- and why some ...

A recent article doing the rounds on social media gained attention for all the right reasons. It meticulously explained how many stocks an investor should own, discussing diversification strategies, ...