The old adage "Don't put all your eggs in one basket" can apply to so many life situations. Using this concept with investments even suggests an entire investment philosophy, loosely called ...

A lot of conventional wisdom regarding investing and wealth management has been questioned over the past couple of years. The best example is the traditional 60/40 portfolio. In the last couple of ...

This is the first of a two-part series on a magic investment principle that reduces and eliminates risk and, at the same time, improves return: Proper Diversification. In this first column we will ...

Diversification is one of the very few so-called "free lunches" to be had on the stock market. And though it's easy to lose track of one's portfolio weightings after one of the best multiple-year bull ...

iShares Core Equity ETF Portfolio offers a low-cost way to own over 9,000 equities from across the entire investable universe. Holding an all-in-one exchange-traded fund like XEQT:CA can provide the ...

History is filled with stories of successful stock pickers — figures who bet a large portion of their portfolios on a few stocks after thorough analysis and walked away with handsome gains. [Sign up ...

The key to diversification is using more assets. The less correlated those assets, the better. While I wish I had come up with the title of this article, it is attributed to Ray Dalio, of Bridgewater ...

The path to financial freedom isn’t reserved for Wall Street insiders or the already wealthy. With thoughtful planning and consistent action, ordinary individuals can build substantial wealth through ...

There aren't many opportunities to get a free lunch from Wall Street, but proper diversification is one way you can come close. Time after time, academic research has concluded that diversification, ...

It’s more tempting to ride your winners higher. But there are drawbacks to doing such. Selling a big winner for the sake of better diversification is almost always a fantastic idea. Are you ahead, or ...