portfolios

Passively managed portfolios that aim to match, not beat, the performance of the broader market are being tweaked to make investing cheaper and easier.

These 'Lazy Portfolios' suggest that skipping trading in favor of simple, diversified, no-load index funds may be the way to go.

Dividend-paying stocks should be a part of retirees' portfolios. Over time, dividends account for an enormous part of the market's earnings.

Market meltdowns and shrinking portfolios have rekindled interest in annuities as a safe way to help fund retirement.

Buy-and-hold has never meant buy-and-forget. As a new decade dawns, it's time to rejigger portfolios, with stakes in alternative energy, transportation and global banking.

A lot has changed since the recession began, including the roles stocks and bonds play in investors' portfolios. For starters, get used to more cash, catastrophes and regulation.

Since the start of the recession, donors who rely on the rising value of their portfolios to fund their philanthropy have been putting less money into several of the largest donor-advised funds....

As stocks soared over the past 7 months, many individuals retreated from the market. Returning investors should position their portfolios for 2010.   

If you read academic investment research, growth investors belong somewhere between people who believe the Earth is flat and those who get their stock tips from talking dogs.

After taking big hits on their portfolios last year, investors still had to fork over hefty management fees, magnifying their losses.

If companies share in our gains, shouldn't they share our pain? See who said yes.