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Kids have become top targets for identity thieves. The BAM ALLIANCE's Jared Hoffman outlines the warning signs that a child’s identity has been compromised, and some cybersecurity measures you can take to keep it from happening to a young person you love.

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Wealth Advisor Ken Rosenbaum looks at some essential financial tasks and other important to-do's you may have overlooked as the first day of a new academic year approaches and you get ready to send your child off to college.

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Why do investors choose to keep playing the loser's game? Larry Swedroe offers some explanations of his own, then unpacks a study that suggests a form of the conjunction fallacy has a role in active management's survival.

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What type of investor are you? Larry Swedroe unpacks a CFA Institute Research Foundation brief on risk profiling and tolerance that looks at four investor personalities, and the potentially problematic behavioral tendencies likely to come with each.

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A lot of investors are curious to know what an inverted yield curve, if one occurs, might mean for the stock market. In an analysis of Fed data, Jared Kizer concludes such inversions don't preordain poor equity returns and that other context matters.

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Do investors see dividend increases as good or bad news? It depends on whether they're looking at an individual stock or an entire market. Larry Swedroe reviews a new study into how a country’s aggregate dividend payout rate affects its equity returns.

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Some active mutual funds have prospectus benchmarks that understate risk and, thus, overstate relative performance. Larry Swedroe unpacks a study that explores how such funds benefit from that overstatement at investors' expense.

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You wake up tomorrow and everything about your life is exactly the same except you have no possessions other than the clothes on your back and a bag of money equal to your financial worth today. Tim Maurer asks: What would you change?

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