What Is a Bond?
Stock market volatility has a way of returning when investors least expect it. A particularly volatile period can wipe away trillions of dollars in wealth (on paper) in a matter... Read More
What Is a Mutual Fund?
For young investors, I believe that exchange-traded funds — or ETFs — offer the cheapest and simplest way to make money in the stock market. It’s so easy to get... Read More
What Is a Robo-Adviser?
Yeah, you guessed it right. A robo-advisor is not a robot that advises, but what this robot has is a very specific task: to help humans manage their investments. Robo-advisers —... Read More
What Is a Balanced Portfolio?
A “balanced portfolio” is a strategy used by most investors. As the term implies, investors seek to balance their investment earnings against the risk of losing money when the markets... Read More
What Is Passive Investing?
There are two types of investors: Those who try to beat the market (active) and those who seek to just match the market’s performance (passive). Passive investing means buying index... Read More
Risks in Cryptocurrency
There is a general consensus that cryptocurrency is here to stay. This applies to the field overall; most people believe that digital currency is going to be with us, more... Read More