The Intelligent Investor

For some Main Street investors, this year’s decline doesn’t feel like a calamity. It feels like an opportunity.

Buying stocks as they drop is harder than it sounds. Here’s one strategy that might help keep you on course in turbulent times.

The stock market’s volatility may last longer than investors have come to expect—but you can still prosper with discipline, patience and courage.

The four-decade-long bull market in bonds is over, but that doesn’t mean you should dump them.

It’s possible to squeeze a higher return from even your safest assets. Here’s how to do it.

Investors don’t have to settle for scraps anymore now that interest rates are rising

In recent years, investors often got rewarded for taking reckless risks, but in unforgiving markets, it’s harder to recover from mistakes.

Bond investors have been pummeled this year as the central bank has tightened up. Here’s how to think about your portfolio in a period of rising interest rates.

Successful investors diversify broadly, avoid unnecessary risk and rarely trade. So why are kids getting rewarded for doing the opposite?

For most of the past decade, investing has required almost no courage at all. That may well be changing.

Trading on the Moscow stock exchange was suspended this past week. It’s the latest reminder to investors that markets aren’t always liquid.

You don’t have to act on your own forecasts about global events. You don’t even have to make any.

Investors need to stop blaming others for their own mistakes. One trick that might help: drafting an explanation of why you failed before your portfolio goes south.

Past stock returns may be the best guide to the future, but they aren’t as reliable as many investors think.

A harsh irony of investing is that you can be correct about the future and still be wrong about how to profit from it.

Turbulent times can cause investors to make decisions they’ll later regret. Here’s how to stay afloat in these choppy waters without sinking your future.

It isn’t investments that get tested in turbulent markets; it’s investors.

A change that benefited big clients left little ones holding the bag.

The ARK Innovation ETF posted big returns, and big money followed. Now it’s the latest example of what happens when a fund becomes too large for its own good.

Stocks are soaring. The pandemic is raging. The Fed may be hiking. Here’s how to keep a steady hand amid the madness.