THE AAII JOURNAL NOVEMBER 2025 ISSUE
COVER ARTICLE
Fed Signals That Investors Should Watch and What They Mean
Incorporating Federal Reserve policy shifts into an investing model rooted in 12 market anomalies.
Features
in AI-Powered Investing,Economic and Market Analysis
How Individual Investors Can Use AI Tools to Track the Economy
Turn information overload into actionable insight and gain understanding of the macroeconomic elements driving market actions.
in Portfolio Strategies,Asset Allocation,Retirement Planning,Small Cap Value Investing
Investing for Life on the Smoother Path
The power of using a 50/50 combination of a target-date fund and U.S. small-cap value over 40 years of saving for retirement.
in Quarterly ETF Update,ETFs and Mutual Funds,Mutual Funds,Exchange-Traded Funds,Quarterly Mutual Fund Update
Precious Metals Join Digital Assets on Top in Third-Quarter 2025
The top 25 and bottom 25 exchange-traded funds (ETFs) and mutual funds for the third quarter of 2025.
in AAII How-To,Beginning Investor,Investing Basics
Steadily Building Wealth Through Dollar-Cost Averaging and Value Averaging
The discipline of investing regularly over extended periods regardless of market conditions can offer significant long-term benefits.
in First Cut Stocks,AAII Stock Ideas
All-Star Stocks Passing the Most AAII Screens
A First Cut that lists the stocks passing the greatest number of screens tracked by AAII at the Screening area of AAII.com.
in AAII + BetterInvesting,Stock Strategies,Dividends
Identifying Quality Dividend Stocks When Yields Are Low
Success in today's dividend investing landscape requires abandoning the outdated practice of simply chasing the highest yields.
in AAII Sentiment Investing,Trading Strategies
How to Use Short Interest as a Market Sentiment Indicator
Short interest reveals how defensively or complacently institutional investors are positioned.
in Active Investing,Trading Strategies
Seven Keys to Successful Trading and Active Investing
How to steer clear of the basic errors and pitfalls that have led many traders and active investors to fail.
Notes & Opinions
in Editor's Note,Economic and Market Analysis
Follow the Fed, Not Speculation About the Fed
The CME FedWatch Tool shows the implied interest rates being priced into federal funds futures, giving a real-time indicator of what traders perceive to be the direction of interest rate changes.
in AAII Community,Beginning Investor
The Easiest Way to Start Investing in an Uncertain Market
Now may be a good time to talk to younger family members about dollar-cost averaging.
in Local Chapters
Learn Income and Cash Flow Strategies With the AAII Community
The AAII Income & Cash Flow Investing SIG is your gateway to learn how to build sustainable passive income and cash flow.
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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