The 10 Mistakes Investors Most Commonly Make

Meir Statman, one of the nation’s leading experts in behavioral finance (the study of why people do irrational things with their money), has written a new book that shows investors how their mistakes are usually caused by their…

ETFs in 2010: The Winners, the Losers and the Warnings

The investment world’s love affair with ETFs continued in 2010, as more than 1,000 funds managed assets of $940 billion. Here’s a review of the best and the worst performers, and a few reminders about how to use these investmen…

Expect the Dollar’s Uptrend to Be Negative for Stocks

The dollar-stocks see-saw — in which the two move in opposite directions — seems to be holding up. And over the longer term, there’s good reason for the dollar to stay on its recent upward trend, which would be bad news for s…