Weekly Wrap: The Sustainable Investing Dilemma, Stock Splits, and Model Portfolios

Editor's Picks

Why Broader Portfolio Diversification Has Finally Started Paying Off Diversifying beyond the basics has helped buffer losses during this year's bearish market.

4 Charts to Improve Your Tax Management Here are a few tax-management best practices for advisors and investors to consider.

The Best Equity ETFs These stock-focused exchange-traded funds all earn Gold Morningstar Analyst Ratings.

Will the Newly Retired Outlive Their Assets? With the stock and bond markets both selling off this year, here's how the newly retired can make sure their assets last.

The Model Portfolio Landscape in 6 Charts Illuminating the rising popularity of model portfolios.

The Sustainable-Investing Dividend Dilemma How oil companies can find their way into an ESG portfolio.

Portfolio Planning and Personal Finance With Christine Benz

Risk, Not Volatility, Is the Real Enemy Grant us investors the wisdom to know the difference.

Could Required Minimum Distributions Cause You to Withdraw Too Much? The withdrawal rules are pretty conservative, but couples with a big age disparity should be more cautious.

Mutual Funds and Exchange-Traded Funds

Which Dividend Investing Strategies Are Outperforming? High income plus high quality has made for a down-market cushion with these ETFs.

Top 10 Holdings of Our Ultimate Stock-Pickers' Index

Why Dodge & Cox International Stock Is a Good Investment The fund is outperforming its peer group this year. But that's not why Morningstar likes it.

Grading the Inflation Hedges A big win for commodities funds. Crypto, not so much.

Stocks

What Does Shopify's Stock Split Mean for Investors? The e-commerce company's shares will have a fair value estimate of $45 following the planned 10-1 split.

Despite Shopify's Stock Split, Investors Should Look Elsewhere With the company's sales slowing in a post-lockdown world, investors may be better off with Amazon shares.

What Slow but Steady Wireless Growth Means for Top Telecom Stocks Here's what Morningstar's analyst thinks of AT&T, Verizon, and T-Mobile today.

3 Solid Stock Picks for an Unsteady Market These stocks are reliable in tumultuous times.

4 Myths About Investing in Cryptocurrency The truth about crypto's diversification value, fraud, the role blockchain technology is playing in performance, and how much it costs to trade.

Rekenthaler Report

When Bonds Do Not Hedge Stocks For the first time in decades, bonds haven't protected balanced portfolios. What to do?

Cash as an Inflation Hedge: Revisited The advantages of playing it safe.

The Long View Podcast

How Cash Bucketing Keeps Your Retirement Spending on Track Leaders in retirement research share how you can set a withdrawal rate that won't leave you with leftovers.

David Lau: Taking High Commissions Out of Annuities The DPL Financial Partners CEO discusses disentangling annuities and life insurance from their high-cost, high-commission roots—and why fixing long-term-care coverage could be next.

Sustainability Matters

Is BlackRock to Blame for iShares' ESG Fund Outflows in May? The giant asset manager has dialed back exposure to these ETFs in its model portfolios.

How Drug Pricing Can Increase ESG Risks for Pharmaceutical Stocks New Morningstar research highlights Big Pharma's exposure to ESG risk. Two winners: BioMarin and Sanofi.

Policy

What We Told the SEC About Climate-Related Risk Disclosures Morningstar supports the commission's new rule and offers suggestions to improve it.

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