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21) 5 Ways To Protect Your Bond Portfolio From Rising Interest Rates: Treasury Inflation Protected Securities (TIPS). Floating rate loan funds. Short-term bond funds. Money-market funds. Bond ladders.

22) Stocks: Reduce Risk Yet Maximize Profits: Every smart investor wants to minimize risk while maximizing profit potential. Yet conventional investment theory tells us that in order to increase returns, you have to increase risk. You may be surprised to find that this conventional wisdom is not always true.

23) The Perfect Mutual Fund: The perfect mutual fund is the one you build yourself. It should have the objective of owning no more than 12 to 15 companies. Owning shares in 12 companies would allow the diversity needed to sleep well at night and would provide a cash dividend every week of the year.

24) Dividend Paying Stocks: A company that just pays a dividend is not good enough; find those companies with a historical record of raising their dividend every year. Companies that raise their dividend every year outperform those companies that stop or trim their dividends.

25) Investing in the Stock Market: There are several factors an investor in the stock market should consider. Here are 10 tips for investing.

26) Playing the High-Stakes Biotech Game: Before you decide to dump or load up on biotech stocks, it is worthwhile to look at the 3C's driving this sector: Cancer, Cycle-time, and Consolidation.

27) No Load Mutual Funds: Boost Your Portfolio's Returns: Investors who exclusively use broadly diversified, no load mutual funds for their stock investments often lose out on opportunities to increase the reward potential of their portfolios. This article looks at two methods investors may use to enhance the performance of their portfolio of diversifed, no load mutual funds.

28) Beta Factors: How They Can Be Used In The Current Situation: The aim of this article is to explain one method of measuring the volatility, namely beta factors, and how investors can interpret this information. The article aims to state how investors can use beta factor analysis to their advantage when there are political uncertainties affecting markets.

29) Using Sector Funds to Construct Diversified Mutual Fund Portfolios: Investors can effectively create a diversified mutual fund portfolio by allocating assets across a group of sector funds. This approach gives flexibility to over-weight or under-weight certain sectors versus broadly diversified indexes such as the S&P 500.

30) The 8 Biggest Mistakes When Designing Portfolios - and How To Avoid Them: By avoiding these biggest mistakes you will design an optimal portfolio that provides the best opportunity to achieve and protect your financial independence, control and security.

31) Online Forex: Q & A on the foreign exchange markets.

32) The Secret to More Winning Trades is as Simple as Avoiding This Common Mistake: Failure to use trailing stops to pre-determine the maximum amount you are willing to lose on a stock or fund. Equally important, trailing stops keep you in profitable investments so you don’t sell too soon and miss out on profits.

33) Lies, Damn Lies and Mutual Fund Returns: Look past the surface and don’t take any numbers thrown at you at face value. Remember, most people returning from a weekend in Las Vegas will shout about their winnings and mumble about their losses.

34) How To Beat The Mutual Fund Companies At Their Own Game: Do what your mutual fund company does — not what they tell you to do. Use a well performing mutual fund during strong up trends and get over to the sidelines during trend reversals.

35) Investors: Avoid These 5 Common Tax Mistakes: Failing to offset gains. Miscalculating the basis of mutual funds. Failing to use tax-managed funds. Missing deadlines for contributions. Putting investments in the wrong accounts.

36) How To Make, And Keep, Money Trading Stocks: If you are serious about making and keeping money by trading stocks, then there are three things you need to do, and do well.

37) Selecting Good Stock Trading Software: Stock trading software is a must have for all serious investors. You cannot afford to trade in today's markets without having the impartial advice and inside intelligence that a good software trading system provides.

38) Rolling your 401k: Contributory IRA vs. Rollover IRA:  If you are like most people, you will change careers, or at least companies, several times. Each time, you'll be faced with the question of what to do with your accumulated 401k benefits. Here are some solutions.

39) SWOT Analysis: SWOT analysis should be done on every company you’re thinking of making an investment in. SWOT stands for: Strenghts, Weaknesses, Opportunities, Threats. Analyzing these four factors will help you make better investment decisions.

40) Porter's Five Forces Analysis: This article looks at a methodology called the Porter’s Five Forces Analysis. In his book Competitive Strategy, Harvard professor Michael Porter describes five forces affecting the profitability of companies. These are the five forces he noted.

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