Investing

What's a bond? What's a stock? How do you choose a retirement plan? We're here to help.

Here's an investing recap of tips and strategies from this week's show.

Many investor prefer actively picking stocks and bonds or hiring a money manager to select stocks. So what should you know?

Should you research individual companies or take the 'set-it and forget it' approach to investing?

Marketplace Money's Facebook followers send in tips of their own

Do you buy or sell stocks based on consensus forecasts? Analyst Juli Niemann at Smith, Moore & Company says there is something you should know about that strategy.

Older Americans, whose retirement portfolios include a lot of bonds, might be concerned about fluctuations in the bond market right now. We've got some advice on what to do.

Tax season gives many of us a chance to review the past year and examine our investment portfolios. We've got tips on how to improve yours.

Buy high and sell low is a sad truth for a reason. Time and again we let panic or euphoria drive our actions in the market and wind up making big, expensive mistakes.

The disposition effect says investors tend to "sell the winners, and hold onto the losers" for purely emotional reasons. One behavioral economist fell for the classic investment mistake.