Financial experts suggest a simple investment strategy is often the most effective for building wealth. Investing regularly in low-cost, diversified index funds is a recommended approach for long-term ...

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 ...

Acorns is an investment app designed to promote passive investing and simplify financial management for everyday users. Unlike other investing apps that make day trading easier or democratize access ...

The Federal Reserve’s is set to lower interest rates in two weeks. Most investors are looking at this as one of the biggest events of the year. Lower interest rates often provide a tailwind for stocks ...

FLRN invests in floating rate bonds which, by their very nature, have low interest rate risk. To explain why, some context first. Most bonds and bond funds pay a fixed rate of interest for their ...

A taxable investment account is exactly what it sounds like: It has no special tax treatment, no tax advantages. If you sell ...

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 ...

Becoming a professional fund manager isn't easy, but it turns out that beating the returns of some of the best fund managers in the world is. It's a quirk of stock market mechanics that makes a simple ...

FLRN invests in floating rate investment-grade bonds, resulting in a stable share price and low volatility. The fund currently offers a 5.9% dividend yield, making it a buy for short-term or ...

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Investors looking to buy American stocks could buy them one by one. However, exchange-traded funds can make buying American companies easier. The easiest, most widely followed way to buy American with ...