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The 10 Best Funds for Your 401k

By Kent Thune, InvestorPlace Contributor

The best funds for your 401k will typically be low-cost funds with good performance records. We highlight 10 of the best, as well as a…

Wall Street Favorites: 3 Mutual Funds With Strong Buy Ratings for May 2024

By Noah Bolton, InvestorPlace Contributor

Mutual funds are fantastic for investors preparing for retirement. These mutual funds to buy offer consistent returns on investments.

The 3 Best Mutual Funds for a January Correction

By Kent Thune, InvestorPlace Contributor

The Trump inauguration could trigger a ‘sell-the-news’ market correction, which would make these three mutual funds great buys.

7 Great Vanguard Funds to Buy for Retirement Investors

By Todd Shriber, InvestorPlace Contributor

Each of these Vanguard funds can help investors at various stages of retirement planning. The following is what investors need to know about each specific…

The 3 Best Funds for Deflation

By Kent Thune, InvestorPlace Contributor

Deflation is a threat, not a certainty … but investors could do worse than being prepared with one of these best funds for deflationary environments.

The 3 Best Funds to Buy for the Rest of 2015

By Kent Thune, InvestorPlace Contributor

With the market in risk-off mode and few compelling investment ideas out there, finding the best mutual funds for the rest of 2015 wasn’t easy.…

The 3 Best Funds You’ve Never Heard Of

By Kent Thune, InvestorPlace Contributor

Sometimes the best funds are the ones that the crowd misses. Here are three outstanding mutual funds you may not know about.

5 Best 401k Mutual Funds for 2014

By Bill Wysor

Maximizing the success of your 401k is a big piece of the retirement puzzle. To help out, here’s a look at five of the best…

3 Mutual Funds to Buy Now: Q3 Edition

By Noah Bolton, InvestorPlace Contributor

Mutual funds are one of the best methods for long term investors to grow and their retirement portfolios for the future.

Morningstar’s Latest Attempt to Rate Funds Falls Flat

By Dan Wiener

While some of Morningstar’s mutual fund ratings are spot-on, many of them — including VFINX, VEIEX, VASGX and VASIX — are up for debate.

The 3 Best Vanguard Funds for Beginners in 2017

By Kent Thune, InvestorPlace Contributor

Vanguard funds have everything beginners need to get started investing. With that in mind, here are three of the best Vanguard funds for beginners.

Forget Underperforming Hedge Funds — Track Your Own Way to Profits

By Tom Taulli, InvestorPlace Contributor

Most hedge funds still can’t find a way to even match the market, but you can — and the answer might be easier than you…

3 of the Best Bond Funds to Buy Now

By Kent Thune, InvestorPlace Contributor

While what constitutes the best bond funds changes from person to person, VBISX, DIDIX and VWEHX can help three major investment objectives.

5 Best Mutual Funds to Buy for 2015

By Kent Thune, InvestorPlace Contributor

We put together the 5 best mutual funds to buy in 2015 that, when bought all together, create a small, diversified portfolio.

5 Investments to Make Before the U.S Falls Over the Fiscal Cliff

By Richard Band

These high-yield investments offer a thick buffer of cash to help protect you if that happens.

The 7 Highest-Rated Vanguard Mutual Funds

By Kent Thune, InvestorPlace Contributor

These seven Vanguard mutual funds are an elite group of offerings that have racked up high ratings from both Lipper and Morningstar.

The 7 Best Vanguard Funds for 2018

By Kent Thune, InvestorPlace Contributor

The Vanguard funds lineup has many outstanding choices for 2018. We highlight the seven best funds for your portfolio.

3 Best Bond Funds to Own Now

By Kent Thune, InvestorPlace Contributor

Don’t bet against bond funds. Just be selective. The best bond funds to buy now — including these three — are less sensitive to interest…

Is Now the Time to Buy Emerging Markets?

By Daniel Putnam, InvestorPlace Contributor

Emerging market stocks have sharply underperformed U.S. equities, but that doesn’t meant it’s time to buy … yet.

3 Reasons to Own Bonds

By Richard Band

To earn income, to cushion volatility and to beat stocks. Don’t let false alarms about a bond bubble steer you away from these durable investments.

7 Index Funds to Buy to Retire a Millionaire

By Josh Enomoto, InvestorPlace Contributor

Although the market shows signs of improvement, the waters are still choppy enough for investors to focus on index funds to buy.

5 Index Funds That Belong In Any Portfolio Seeking Diversification

By Chris Markoch, InvestorPlace Contributor

Index funds are an ideal way for risk-averse investors to diversify and improve their total return. These five funds have been among the best performers.

Aftermath of August’s Intraday Low

By Richard Band

A week after the stock market formed its intraday low, the rebound is still shaky. For now, investors should be selective with new purchases.

Vanguard Investment-Grade Bond Funds

By Kent Thune, InvestorPlace Contributor

Vanguard investment-grade bond funds allow investors a low-cost way to balance yield and risk. We look at all of Vanguard’s options.

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