As a former journalist, financial services executive and financial advisor, I'm dedicated to helping people understand that investing is as much about the emotions as it is about finance.

Investors are faced with dozens of exchange traded funds based on new, proprietary index methodologies.  Growth funds outperformed value funds in 2007, but did funds based on new, proprietary methodol...

A default investment fund is what you get when you can't make up your mind what to invest in, as in a 401(k) plan.  The most popular default fund today is the target retirement date fund, promoted as ...