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Low-cost investing is all the rage, and for good reason. Fees can eat away at your returns.
According to the Securities and Exchange Commission, over 20 years, 0.50% in annual fees lowers a portfolio value by $10,000 compared to investment fees of 0.25%. If the fees are 1% annually, that reduces the portfolio’s value by close to $30,000.
Put another way, it costs you $28,000 over 20 years if your fees are 1% on a $100,000 investment. Had you invested that $28,000 at the same rate, you would have earned an additional $12,000 over that timeframe.
There are two camps when it comes …read more […]

Growth investors who prioritize these fundamentals have been well-served in 2019, and there’s a good chance that these stocks will continue to expand — and deliver continued gains to shareholders — in 2020 and beyond. Here are nine exchange-traded funds that easily wrap up some of the best growth stocks. The fund is admittedly just a vanilla index fund, with a simple screen for growth characteristics and a market-cap weighting that biases toward mega-cap technology stocks like Apple (AAPL) and Microsoft Corp. (MSFT). …read more […]

Many investors are still learning about the various metrics that can be useful when analysing a stock. This article is… …read more […]

We use a lot of energy in the United States. Unfortunately, we waste far more.
In 2018 alone, we consumed 101.2 quadrillion British thermal units (quads).
But we wasted 68% of it!
This is the issue I’m addressing today.
Nationwide Trends
You can see where all our energy comes from – and what it’s used for – in the chart below. I call it “America’s Energy Flow Chart.”

All the energy sources on the left of the chart are in percentages. It’s interesting to me how quickly renewables are growing.
On the flip side, coal generation is in retreat. It’s being replaced by natural gas-fired power plants …read more […]

The Federal Reserve is expected to give its third rate cut of the year on Wednesday. Yahoo Finance’s Adam Shapiro and Julie Hyman discuss how this will influence the markets with Mellon Chief Economist Vincent Reinhart and Heritage Capital President Paul Schatz on On the Move. …read more […]

GE shares jumped the most in a decade after posting an earnings beat and raising its cash flow forecast. Jim Corridore, Director Of Industrials Equity Research At CFRA, joined On The Move to discuss. …read more […]