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Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Catherine Brock covers personal finance and investing. In a perfect world, stock prices would always reflect underlying value. But ...

There are more than 50,000 sustainability indexes. They’ve played an important role in the growth of sustainable investing, representing strategies ranging from ESG to climate to impact, according to ...

The Accumulative Swing Index (ASI) was originally developed by J. Welles Wilder and described in detail in his book “Concepts in Technical Trading” published in 1978. The ASI was derived from Wilder’s ...

It’s easy to become a hyperfocused investor. With so much investment information available, you can spend all your time chasing advisor suggestions, scrolling through financial articles, and screening ...

The color-coded Air Quality Index categories you’ll find on the Environmental Protection Agency’s AirNow website rank air quality on a 500-point scale and are meant to give the public an easy way to ...

Why struggle to find a needle in a haystack when you can buy the haystack? That was Vanguard founder Jack Bogle's argument for indexing nearly half a century ago when he launched the first index fund ...