Category: Investing

  • Stock valuations: Time to buy or sell?

    Puzzling over whether stocks are cheap or pricey requires examining multiple measures and putting them in context, as Dave Sandstrom explains in a MONEY TALK VIDEO. […]

  • Indexes: Low costs, less flexibility

    Index funds can provide low-cost exposure to market segments, but they also lock investors into those segments, as Kyle Tetting explains in a MONEY TALK VIDEO. […]

  • Getting the big stuff right

    Investors know to not put all their eggs in one basket. But where you put them makes a big difference, as Kyle Tetting explains in a MONEY TALK VIDEO. […]

  • Actively managing investment risk

    In considering active management vs. passive indexing, investors should take a look at how risk comes into play, Kyle Tetting suggests in a MONEY TALK VIDEO. […]

  • Active management: Less risk, more return

    By Kyle Tetting The argument for indexing fails to account for a small subset of actively managed funds that do consistently outperform their benchmarks. Also, the argument fails to account for risk by focusing solely on the returns of the indexes compared to actively managed funds. […]

  • Socially Responsible Investing

    A new report from the Forum for Sustainable and Responsible Investment shows socially conscious investment assets have grown 76% to more than $6.5 trillion since 2012. Such expansion has helped broaden options and lower costs for investors, making it easier to do well while doing good, as Kyle Tetting explains in a MONEY TALK VIDEO.…

  • Seeing how your equities are balanced

    A style box can help analyze how equities are balanced, as Kyle Tetting shows in a MONEY TALK VIDEO. […]

  • Correlation: How investment balance can shift

    Economic trends and other events can change relationships between investments, which is why investors need to monitor correlation, Kyle Tetting says in a MONEY TALK VIDEO. […]

  • Efficiently allocating assets

    The mix of stocks and bonds can make a significant difference in an investor’s risk-adjusted returns. That’s why it’s wise to focus on asset allocation, as Steve Giles shows in a MONEY TALK VIDEO. […]

  • Alpha: Putting investment return in the context of risk

    It is first in the Greek alphabet, but as an investment tool, alpha takes a back seat to beta for investors concerned about risk. Kyle Tetting explains in a MONEY TALK VIDEO. […]