THE AAII JOURNAL MARCH 2025 ISSUE
COVER ARTICLE
Understanding the Role of Long-Term Care Insurance
Dispelling misconceptions can help you make an informed decision.
Features
in Retired Investor,Financial Planning,Estate Planning
Key Financial and Estate Planning Steps for Aging Parents and Children
Insights from our personal experiences can help you prepare your loved ones to handle the financial planning and management needed after your death.
in Portfolio Strategies,Rebalancing
Which Protects Your Retirement Better: Rebalancing or Buffer Strategies?
A comparison of two approaches to handling withdrawals in your retirement portfolio.
in Portfolio Strategies,Retired Investor,Level3 Passive Portfolio
Using the Level3 Withdrawal Strategy to Achieve Growth and Stability
Protecting the assets needed in the near future from market downturns allows you to balance risk and return in a rational way.
in ETFs and Mutual Funds,Dividends
How Dividend-Paying Mutual Funds and ETFs Differ
Yield-producing funds provide a steady income source, making them attractive for retirees and income-focused investors.
in Stock Strategies,Sell Rules
A Fund Manager’s Rules for Selling Stocks
Mastering the art of knowing when to sell can make a big positive difference in your long-term returns.
in AAII How-To,Tax Strategies,Dividends
An Investor's Guide to Understanding 1099 Tax Forms
What earnings are reported on the common 1099 tax forms and where to include these amounts on your taxes.
in AAII Stock Ideas,Stock Strategies
Choosing the Right Stock Screen for Your Investing Strategy
A well-designed screen can provide you with a preliminary list of stocks that hold promise.
Notes & Opinions
in Editor's Note
Incorporating a Buffer Can Protect Your Retirement Portfolio
One of the main lessons I’ve learned from looking at various retirement withdrawal strategies is the importance of having a mechanism to protect a portfolio from bear markets.
in Dispatches,Economic and Market Analysis
Rising Egg Prices and Inflation
The outsized increase in the price of eggs relative to overall inflation makes it easy to perceive inflation as being higher than it really is.
in Dispatches,Stock Strategies,Behavioral Finance
How Fear and Overconfidence Directly Affect Market Behavior
Investor emotions cause asset mispricing, which leads to temporary market inefficiencies.
in Dispatches,Beginning Investor,Financial Planning
Mind Over Money: Financial Awareness Drives Smarter Decisions
Higher financial awareness levels lead to increased savings, lower credit card delinquency and improved retirement planning.
in AAII Community,Beginning Investor
Forget Luck, Invest Like a Pro
Instead of waiting for a four-leaf clover, it’s better to base your decisions on solid research and a long-term outlook.
The AAII Journal, a leading investment publication, provides readers with a continuing stream of insights and ideas that focus on how you can improve your investment results. Unlike many investment magazines, ours is completely unbiased, educational and contains no advertising.
AAII has published this prestigious financial journal every month for more than 40 years. Members receive it for free and have access to thousands of evergreen articles online so they can reference information and strategies for previous market situations with a few clicks of the mouse.
Our stock journal helps individual investors manage their portfolios, build sound investment strategies and navigate all types of financial conditions. Articles range from optimizing target-date fund portfolios to retirement account withdrawal strategies and analysis on robo-advisor performance.
The magazine also has recurring features our members find invaluable. Every quarter, we dissect our model stock portfolio and provide updates to its holdings and performance. This analysis helps individual investors manage small-cap value investments.
We also offer an annual tax guide in our financial magazine. This detailed investment magazine issue covers many details that individual investors need to consider when filing their taxes. It keeps readers updated on any recent changes to tax laws and provisions and provides a handy guide to tax implications of personal investments to cut through any tax filing confusion.
Another annual feature covers ETFs (exchange-traded funds) and mutual funds. This edition helps individual investors understand what to look for when investing in funds. Online, we accompany those articles with sortable tables so that members have an interactive component to their investment research. This helps individual investors plan their portfolios and invest with confidence.
Other regular features in the AAII Journal include financial planning, stock ideas and investor professor. Financial planning articles walk investors through the process and difficulties of crafting strategies for creating wealth regardless of age. They also cover difficult situations, such as estate planning, and helpful advice for getting kids and grandchildren interested in investing.
Stock ideas, as the name implies, give readers a peek at new screens and the stocks that pass them. This part of our investing magazine helps readers identify new opportunities in the markets, flagged by a mix of quantitative and qualitative analysis. Because we all, as investors, need ideas, this remains one of the most popular categories.
Investor professor helps readers invest with knowledge and confidence. It deals with contingencies, such as “What happens to your investment if a company goes bankrupt?” and gives actionable advice on what resources you should use when considering a new broker. Our readers enjoy this section because of its practicality and enduring tips.
Frequent internal contributors include president John Bajkowski; AAII Journal editor and vice president Charles Rotblut; Stock Superstars Report lead analyst Wayne A. Thorp; and Dividend Investing editor Derek Hageman. Together, these internal contributors have nearly a century of market wisdom and research, which they share with clear and concise prose to help individual investors improve their knowledge and portfolios.
The AAII Journal also includes frequent guest contributions from the financial and economic space. Articles from outside industry experts differentiate our financial magazine from others and provide additional points of view for our readers. Previous guest authors have included John C. Bogle, founder of Vanguard; Jay Clayton, chairman of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission; Charles Schwab; and Nobel laureate and Yale professor Robert Shiller.
We hope you’ll enjoy our articles and, if you’re not a member, consider joining the Association so you can get our prestigious magazine sent to your door every month.
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