The Big Screen: Core Stock Funds
If your portfolio let you down over the past year or two, it's a good time to look deep into its heart.
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A broad, cheap, vanilla stock fund focused on big-cap stocks could've held your portfolio together as stock prices tumbled over the past two years. Here's why: Tethering the bulk of your assets to a broad range of stocks helps your portfolio rise with the broader market and makes it less likely that you'll suffer outsize losses when your favorite sector or style folds. ...
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