Investing

Where people put their money to try to grow it.

Mutual Funds

Mutual funds let thousands of people chip in together and hire a professional to invest on their behalf.

A sky-high dividend yield can be a warning sign rather than a bargain: sometimes the share price has simply been falling.

A way to make money in your sleep — as long as the tenants pay rent and the roof doesn't leak.

Buying an option risks only what you paid for it, while selling one can cost far more, the big asymmetry of options.

When interest rates rise, the bonds you already own lose value, because bond prices and rates move in opposite directions.

Compound interest is what happens when your money gets a job and then hires its own employees.

It's been called the future of money and an elaborate bubble, sometimes by the same person in the same week.

An ETF lets you buy hundreds of companies with one click, the same way you would buy a single share.

A marketplace where you can own a tiny sliver of a trillion-dollar company for less than the price of lunch.

Index funds skip the hard part: instead of trying to beat the market, they simply track it, at much lower fees.