Jeff Brown is a freelance journalist based outside Livingston, Montana. He has covered personal finance and investing for 25 years, including 12 years as a columnist at The Philadelphia Inquirer, and as a reporter at newspapers in Virginia, Minnesota and Texas.
The Permian Basin is booming and pipeline projects are expected to add millions of barrels to supply in the years to come. Couple that with a low-yield world and investors keep heading back to risky oil and gas MLPs for income.
As college graduates start their careers and start dabbling in investing they should begin by knowing important ground rules for success. Top financial advisory experts give their advice.
If you are worried your nest egg will come up short, there are a range of real estate plays that could boost your retirement income and put you over the finish line. Here is an overview of the opportunities — and some of the risks — involved.
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Despite tax reform, the alternative minimum tax is still not completely dead, and certain investments can trigger it.
The biggest retirement-investing mistakes are easy to avoid. It's the ones 401(k) investors don't even know exist that can be more dangerous.
Bitcoin investing is now part of the mainstream, like it or not, with exchanges offering buying and selling of the cryptocurrency and futures contracts tied to it. But getting into bitcoin is complicated and risky.
Retirees reaching for fixed income and yield into foreign and emerging market bonds may be risking too much of their retirement.
In the lightly regulated $700 billion cryptocurrency market, it is important for investors to choose an exchange wisely.
EAFE and emerging markets have been best stock ETF bets this year as investors seek better valuations than the S&P 500, but that's changing.
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