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This year, celebrate Earth Day by looking at your portfolio and determining if ESG investing is suitable for you and your values.

Tax-loss harvesting is a process that involves deliberately selling securities at a loss in order to offset your earnings from other securities, thereby potentially reducing your tax burden. In other words, if you have an investment that’s lost value, you can sell it and deduct the value of that loss from the gains you realize elsewhere. That deduction lowers your total taxable income for the year, which may result in tax savings.

Have you ever wondered how to apply March Madness to your financial well-being? There may be parallels between your bracket selection and investing.

For years, values and investing were viewed as separate disciplines. Not anymore. That’s why it has become increasingly common for investors to incorporate their values into their overall planning.

Most people are comfortable getting second opinions on major decisions. Your investment portfolio should be no different.

If you are an investor and only tax loss-harvest at year-end, you miss the opportunity to loss-harvest mid-year dips. This matters. A lot. Recent studies estimate that year-round tax loss harvesting is significantly more effective than year-end loss harvesting, potentially as much as 2.7x more.

Since the S&P 500 represents a large portion of the value of the U.S. equity market, it may be worth understanding.

Some of the best quotes about investing and the meaning behind them.

Let's discuss the pros and cons of dollar-cost averaging and the role it plays in investing.

ESG investing, also referred to as sustainable investing, is a relatively new—and increasingly fashionable—concept in which investors selectively identify the companies they want to fund based not only on their financial performance but also on the way they interact with their employees, their communities, and the environment.