March 29, 2024
Funds

The Fed’s High Interest Rates Are Helping Pension Funds Close the Gap

This is commentary by Allan Sloan, an independent business journalist and seven-time winner of the Loeb Award, business journalism’s highest honor. We hear lots of talk about the problems that high interest rates have been causing since the Federal Reserve began jacking up rates two years ago. We also hear endless talk from people waiting

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Funds

Keeping Learning Recovery Going When Federal Pandemic Funds Dry Up – The 74

Get stories like these delivered straight to your inbox. Sign up for The 74 Newsletter Education equity advocates are sounding the alarm at a crucial time for America’s public school system — but is anyone listening? There’s a fiscal cliff ahead as the Elementary and Secondary School Relief (ESSER) funds that helped schools across the

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Investment

These mutual-fund and ETF investing tips can give your portfolio new momentum

Published: Feb. 29, 2024 at 3:14 p.m. ET Don’t miss these top money and investing features: INVESTING NEWS & TRENDS 10 stocks you can bet on being inflation-proof High-quality stocks can do well when prices are rising or falling. Here’s why. Read More Nvidia, AI-fueled tech stocks are heading for a ‘magnificent exuberance’ bubble The…

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Funds

Hennen: Have we forgotten the purpose of the Legacy Fund? – InForum

A new poll suggests North Dakotans have a desire to invest more of the Legacy Fund earnings in North Dakota projects benefiting taxpayers. Unfortunately, the questions used by the pollsters were misleading, which isn’t unusual in the polling business. According to the poll, 60% of eligible voters want Legacy Fund investments to be directed to

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Property

Beach jurisdiction and property rights

For many of you, there are a multitude of beach erosion and jurisdiction issues that are playing out at the same time, and this has led to confusion for some and anger for others. Social media postings, often with false or faulty information, has fueled this flame. Without promoting any point of view, I will

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Property

H&M billionaire Stefan Persson’s sprawling property in the English countryside: Ramsbury Estates rears cattle, has 100 cottages, and includes a pub, brewery and distillery – with tours on offer

Persson is currently the richest person in Sweden and the 116th richest in the world, with a net worth of US$16 billion, per the Bloomberg Billionaires Index. His father, Erling Persson, founded a women’s clothing store called Hennes in 1947, which later became Hennes & Mauritz (H&M). Stefan joined the company as head of UK

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Investment

The truth about investing: ‘Common sense’ can be the worst advice

In a recent article I offered the opinion that “common sense” is a dangerous trap that’s easy for investors to fall into. Some readers didn’t agree. So let’s explore this idea a bit, then you can make up your own mind. Common sense is a popular topic for authors. I have often recommended ​”The Little Book of Common

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Property

Voters were duped out of control over property taxes | OPINION | Opinion

Natalie Menten Coloradans, including myself, have exhausted thousands of hours talking about property tax caps during the last year. This was after spending countless time discussing property taxes in the preceding years. It’s puzzling we are still at this point, especially when there are already two property tax limitations in Colorado law: the Annual Levy

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Investment

These mutual-fund and ETF investing tips keep your portfolio in the game

Published: Feb. 8, 2024 at 6:05 p.m. ET Don’t miss these top money and investing features: . INVESTING NEWS & TRENDS This fund manager stopped worrying about economics. Now he is outperforming the stock market. A change in strategy has helped transform the GoodHaven Fund from a long-term underperformer into an outperformer since the end

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These mutual-fund and ETF investing tips can keep your portfolio out of a deep freeze

Published: Feb. 2, 2024 at 4:25 p.m. ET Don’t miss these top money and investing features: Investing news and trends Tesla’s stock had its worst month in a year, but Cathie Wood’s ETFs kept buying The ARK Innovation and ARK Net Generation exchange-traded funds bought more than $150 million in Tesla shares in January. Read

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