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It can be helpful to liken a sensible investment experience to working out and eating healthy; easy to understand but difficult to implement consistently over time.

In a new video feature called "Ask the Sketch Guy," Carl Richards explains how hard we need to work to stick with an investment strategy when the world seems shaky.

This report features world capital market performance and a timeline of events for the last quarter. It begins with a global overview, then features the returns of stock and bond…

Throughout 2012, nervous investors did not have to look hard for reasons to avoid the financial markets. The daily headlines provided abundant gloom to feed their doubts, but investors who…

Although many investors have expressed frustration with stock market fluctuations in recent years, the time required to recover losses from the October 2007 peak appears broadly consistent with past cycles.

Judging by the headlines in the financial press, investors spent much of the past year anxiously awaiting one calamity after another that failed to occur.

Given how easy it is to pull the wool over our own eyes, it can pay to seek independent advice from someone who understands your needs and circumstances and who…