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In the past decade or two, we’ve often said that low interest rates can buoy the economy, but they can also spur investors to make choices they later regret. The most vulnerable investors are those who never really got comfortable with the volatility and uncertainty of stocks, or who had bad experiences in the stock market and never figured out what went wrong.

As they near retirement, these investors prefer to invest mainly in bonds....
Here’s the text of the most-recent letter I sent to our Portfolio Management clients last month:

“We’ve generally stayed out of drug stocks for much of the past two decades, but that will change over the next year or two. In fact, we now expect to see many great investment opportunities in drug stocks throughout the 2020s....
The stock market has gone through a series of phases since it began this year’s downturn in the second half of February.

The drop started out with an abrupt month-long plunge. This attracted a lot of comment on the similarity of the 2020 dive to past periods of extreme market weakness....
The real secret to investment growth lies in hidden value and How to Find the True Growth Stocks shows how to use that knowledge with tech and other growth stocks.
A: There’s little doubt that the developing world’s aging population will continue to spend more on medical services for years to come. Medical device makers are well positioned to capture a share of that increased spending. Technological changes that continually spur new product development will also pay off....
For somebody who advises against investing on the basis of predictions, I get a lot of questions from portfolio-management clients and long-time readers about what I expect the market to do.

I’m happy to answer as well as I can. But you need to understand that my answers are opinions, not predictions....

Introduction


Successful Investors always give dividend stocks the respect they deserve and most view them as the foundation of a sound and profitable investment portfolio.

But finding the right dividend payers can be challenging for new investors as well as experienced ones....
For successful investors, good portfolio management centres around building a well-balanced portfolio.
Note--this is part of a continuing Inner Circle Spotlight Report: The Successful Investor Guide to Bear Market Investing




Like a lot of beginning investors, I took an early interest in “market lore”—rules for making money in the stock market. These rules aim to tell you how to spot good stocks to buy, good times to buy or sell them, how much to pay, etc....
If you’re watching stocks on the rise, it’s important to determine if they are worth your investment or not