If Bill Nasgovitz likes these stocks, you should too. This is the last of the Core Fore investing articles.

A popular prescription in the personal finance domain is to increase or maximize annual contributions to 401(k)s or similar retirement plans. However one of the best financial decisions I’ve made over the past couple of years has been to move in the opposite direction -- to radically reduce my retirement account contributions.For many years the tax-deferred feature of traditional retirement accounts plus the added sweetener of employer matches to contributed funds found me seeking to "max out" voluntary retirement account contributions (this year the limit is north of $16 000 for 401(k)s).A few years ago I began assembling a ...

Investing as if the markets can only go up is a recipe for disaster, while embracing pessimism will keep you in the game.

Birds are singing the sun is shining and life is beautiful again. On the surface the vital signs of our economy are improving with every economic report. In some areas like unemployment the rate of decline is decelerating. In others like GDP decline is turning into growth.The stock market is behaving as if the history of the last 20 years is about to repeat itself: Recession will turn into a robust expansion. Stock prices are discounting an expectation of robust earnings recovery to a level only slightly below the pre-financial crisis level and risk-taking is in vogue again as ...

Pay a man not to work, and that's what he'll do. Reward bankers for taking huge gambles with the balance sheet, and so they will.