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Profit From The Strong Aussie Dollar

| Mark Tobin

When chasing dividend yields, it might pay to look further afield from the obvious choices.

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Dear Stock Market, Please Marry Me

| Bruce Jackson

Avoid messy divorces and commit to investing for a lifetime. Now is a great time to reaffirm your investing vows.

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John Bogle: Common Sense Investing

| Motley Fool Staff

John Bogle is the founder of Vanguard, one of America's largest mutual fund organisations. The Vanguard 500 Index Fund, now…

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Are You Too Old to Start Investing?

| Motley Fool Staff

If you've forgotten to save for your retirement, you're facing an incredible uphill battle when it comes to your financial…

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My Personal Roadmap For The Rest Of 2011

| Motley Fool Staff

I've created a personal roadmap for the rest of 2011, listing several health, financial, family, and travel goals I want…

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One Sure-Sign Signal You Can Trust

| Bruce Jackson

We've been saying it for a while…we think interest rates are going nowhere fast. It was more hunch than science,…

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The Smarter Way to Start Investing

| Motley Fool Staff

Take the best of index trackers, mix in some active trading, and you're on the road to being a successful…

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A Winning Plan for Any Market

| Motley Fool Staff

Whatever the market is doing, by following these three steps you can still make money over the long haul.

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The First Investing Strategy You Should Learn

| Motley Fool Staff

You don't have to have a strategy in order to invest. But with the right strategy, you can make investing…

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Beat the market with just two shares

| Motley Fool Staff

One of the most common pitfalls of individual investing is owning too many shares. Is it any wonder? Vying for…

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Seeking Beauties In This Ugly Market

| Bruce Jackson

It's just not fair. These markets keep falling. Even yesterday, following a strong lead from Wall Street, our local market…

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They Sell, You Profit

| Bruce Jackson

Just when you thought the pain of a falling share market might be due to end, along comes Friday's 172…

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How To Become A Millionaire

| Bruce Jackson

As we confidently predicted, the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) kept interest rates on hold this week. Phew. We were…

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What the RBA Won't Tell You About Interest Rates

| Bruce Jackson

Welcome to the drama that is the Reserve Bank of Australia's (RBA) monthly interest rate decision. I couldn't sleep last…

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Lake Wobegon Meets Investment Bankers

| Motley Fool Staff

Investment bankers have you believe every stock is above average. Reality is conflicts of interest make it impossible for them…

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7 Traits of Phenomenal Investors

| Motley Fool Staff

Reuters blogger Felix Salmon recently posted a video arguing against attending meetings like the Ira Sohn conference in New York…

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The Changing Face of Retail

| Scott Phillips (TMFGilla)

Last week, we wrote about the second coming of the dot.com boom. Growing multiples, billions being spent on companies yet…

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Crash Goes The Stock Market

| Bruce Jackson

What an utterly depressing start to winter. If the cold weather wasn't enough, Wall Street's 279 point overnight reverse chilled…

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Awaiting the Next Crash

| Motley Fool Staff

Bring on the next crash, and the opportunity to buy good companies cheap.

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Tech Stocks The LinkedIn Bubble Forgot

| Motley Fool Staff

If there's one word that gets investors' attention it's "bubble." Can you spot it now?

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How A Mining Crash Could Save The Property Bubble

| Bruce Jackson

The whole of Australia now knows property prices are falling. We've got the perfect solution. A mining crash will save…

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What Surprised Me Most About Warren Buffett

| Motley Fool Staff

Going into the Berkshire Hathaway annual meeting this year, my excitement was tangible. A longtime student of Warren Buffett and…

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Why So Many Fail at Investing

| Motley Fool Staff

This might be the most important investment statistic you ever hear… Over a 20-year period ending in 2008, the S&P…

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Welcome To Bubble 2.0

| Scott Phillips (TMFGilla)

Party like it's 1999. Forget the house price bubble. The dot com bubble is back.

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The Secret You Need to Beat the Market

| Motley Fool Staff

Fact: Index fund investors tend to do better than investors in actively managed funds. Want evidence? According to Mercer, in…

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It's Time to Start Selling

| Motley Fool Staff

Taking on extra risk has been a very profitable move over the past couple of years. Since March 2009, the…

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The Spontaneous Urge To Invest NOW

| Scott Phillips (TMFGilla)

John Maynard Keynes was a 20th century economist, best known for advancing the use of budget deficits and surpluses to…

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The 5 Biggest Biases We Fall Victim To

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Bruce Schneier, an author who writes about how we perceive danger, gave a great talk at TED recently, outlining five…

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Value Investing: It's A Free Lunch

| Motley Fool Staff

Free lunches do exist in the stock market. I am motivated to write this week, as often I am, by…

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The True Story Behind Plunging Commodity Prices

| Motley Fool Staff

If you've paid any attention to the financial media lately, it has been hard to miss the wild ride that…

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5 Signs of Irrational Exuberance You Can't Ignore

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The U.S. economy continues to show tangible signs of recovery. In April, businesses created new jobs at the fastest rate…

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Get Ready For Higher Interest Rates

| Scott Phillips (TMFGilla)

If the Australian Dream is home ownership, then surely the Australian Obsession must be property prices and interest rates. Nothing…

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Are You Too Smart to Be Rich?

| Motley Fool Staff

The headline may sound ludicrous, but we're serious. We've learned all our lives that smart equals rich. Think back to…

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40 Fascinating Things I've Read Lately

| Motley Fool Staff

Pretty simple. When I read something I like, I try to write it down. In no particular order, here are…

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U.S. Guru: The World Is Running Out Of Resources

| Scott Phillips (TMFGilla)

What if we were running out of natural resources? What if global population growth was exacerbating this shortfall? As rhetorical…

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Buffett, bin Laden and DollarWatch

| Bruce Jackson

The investing story of the weekend, the Berkshire Hathaway annual meeting, has been surpassed by news of the death of…

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The Fool, Buffett & Berkshire 2011

| Motley Fool Staff

Grandma's cooking, Fawlty Tower reruns, and old fashioneds never seem to disappoint. Neither do Warren Buffett and Charlie Munger. Berkshire…

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Buffett Holds Court at Woodstock for Capitalists

| Scott Phillips (TMFGilla)

Every year in late April or early May, tens of thousands of investors board trains and planes, heading for the…

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The Next Big Thing: US Property As An Investment

| Bruce Jackson

The Aussie dollar party just won't end. As I write, it trades comfortably over $US1.09. AMP Capital Investors chief economist…

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The 4 Most Dangerous Words In Investing

| Scott Phillips (TMFGilla)

It's often said that the more things change, the more they stay the same. Sir John Templeton's famous take on…

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