Jay Aum

Why the outlook is positive for dividend-centric strategies

With volatility making a return, many investors are taking a step back and reassessing their positions

What Will Win the Next 5 Years in Financial Services?

To keep up with potentially disruptive competitors, financial firms must embrace connected data and planning.

Finding Stable Dividends in a Rough Market

In a world of slowing dividend growth and potentially rising interest rates, your dividend investing strategy may need some tweaks.

Here's the best financial advice the country's top advisors ever got

Financial advisors need money tips, too. In fact, sometimes a salient piece of advice led them into the industry. We asked advisors from firms that made the FA 100 list for 2019 for the best money and investing advice tips they ever received.

5 Tax Tips for Millennials

Winging it on your taxes? You could be missing out on significant savings or worse yet, be endangering your finances and freedom by not knowing the basics.

10 Financial Decisions That Will Haunt You Forever

There's a big difference between making an impulse purchase and making a major decision about your money that could haunt you for a lifetime.

How diversified should a mutual fund be?

The extent of diversification is driven by the mutual fund’s strategy and the market segment it invests in

The Worst Investments Of My Portfolio

The time has come to take a critical look at the positions which, at the time of writing, are the furthest underwater in my portfolio to see what went wrong.

Can We Protect Investment Portfolios From Armageddon?

Is there some sort of investment portfolio “insurance” if an event happens that represents the end of life as we know it? Can assets be protected or hedged?

Rotating Stocks To Grow Portfolio Earnings

My portfolio strategy is to grow the overall earnings per share of my portfolio holdings. It's lunacy to effortlessly rely on the stock market to provide reliab

How Dividend-Paying Stocks Can Energize Your Portfolio

They can help provide you a nice income stream, but be aware that they do carry some risks.

3 Easy Ways to Build a Killer Investment Portfolio

Take 5: What's in Your Investment Portfolio?

Here’s what our faculty have to say about assessing new stocks, investing in green companies—and the benefits of benign neglect.

Is it really necessary to rebalance your investment portfolio?

Periodic rebalancing is generally a good way to keep your investing strategy on track and to prevent your portfolio from becoming too risky during market surges or too conservative after big market setbacks.

How To Choose Stocks For Your Defensive Dividend Portfolio

We're pretty much in a 10-year bull market. Are you looking to be more defensive in your dividend portfolio? Companies with a track record of stable earnings an

How to Find the 'Evil' Investments Hiding in Your Portfolio

If you're wondering whether your portfolio contains some shady shit, the answer is probably yes.

Does Your Retirement Portfolio Need More Stocks?

Low interest rates and longer lifespans suggest stocks are necessary, even in retirement.

Build your investment knowledge

Stocks are a type of investment that signifies ownership in a fraction of a company. Learn how to build your investment knowledge, here.

Do Dividend-Paying Stocks Make Better Investments?

Investors mistakenly believe that dividend-paying stocks make better investments. Dividend stocks are usually on the value end of the spectrum, which does make

RUDD: Avoid all distractions, just pick stocks and build a portfolio

Expose your flank, and they will be on you like a pack of hungry wolves. Weakness is detected in the same way sharks are drawn to blood in the ocean, and