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It’s been looking a lot like a bull market.

Making money by investing in pharmaceutical companies isn’t as easy as you might think

If you’re over 50, you live alone, and you want to keep your mind as young as possible for as long as possible, get a pet. That’s the big takeaway from a new...

Women with diets that included a lot of plant-based proteins were 46% more likely to stay healthy in their later years

These are the picks from a pair of the best small-cap stock pickers you’ve probably never heard of

Another U.S. corporation cuts retirement benefits for its workers while enriching those in its executive suite

One question arising from the Claudine Gay controversy: Why does anyone give money to a university with a $53 billion endowment?

Private-equity hospitals put Medicare patients at risk, new research says

The program’s trust funds aren’t making nearly as much money as they could be

Everyday investors are often on the wrong side of stock-market trends

In general, bonds add little or no value to the portfolio of ordinary long-term investors

IBM is getting rid of its 401(k) match and replacing it with something that can save the company a lot of money

One of the cornerstones of retirement-planning advice has been the 4% rule. It might be time to reconsider.

Cutting Social Security benefits for the young and rich doesn’t help as much as you think it would

This is a massive, bipartisan $22 trillion disaster. It’s a crisis that could have been easily avoided, and should have been.

Closed-end funds have just plunged to their biggest discounts to intrinsic value in years

Multiple changes to a complicated system have inevitably led to more confusion and uncertainty

Retirement savers, take note: Longtime doomsayer has an investment tip

Ruffer’s main claim to fame is to have successfully sidestepped the 2000-2003 and 2007-2009 market collapses

There’s a great investment story behind the yellow metal, but it’s not in ‘’Gold: A Journey With Idris Elba.”