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If what you want from a stock is to collect annual dividend checks, then you might be interested in looking at this list of 25 highest yielding stocks from motley fool.

The dividend yield listed range from a low of 8.79% to a high of 19.6%. Not bad considering the average dividend yield of S&P is peanuts.

Word of caution: Be careful with the list. You need to do your due diligence and verify the yields. Many of these stocks no longer have the return listed above as they have reduced or eliminated their dividends.

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When it comes to investing your money in the stock market, making a beginner’s mistake can cost you alot of money. Thankfully, Stock market games simulators makes it easy to practice with virtual money.

The following are some of the best or let me say most popular online stock market games.

Motley Fool Stock Market game simulator

The Motley Fool hosts a fantasy stock market game and gives participants a chance to win $5,000.

How The Market Works Stock Market Game

How the market works gives beginners a chance to experiment with Forex portfolios, penny stocks, mutual funds and short selling.

Updown Stock Market Game

Updown is for the green investor. If you have never touched stocks before this is the game to try. Provide key terms for beginners. Also has resources in the education center that cover even the most basic of investing concepts.

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Warren Buffet is recommending buying or investing in stocks instead on bonds. From a Motley Fool blog post:-

Warren Buffett said this week that investors that are buying bonds at current yields are “making a mistake,” offering the following investment advice on asset allocation:

“It’s quite clear that stocks are cheaper than bonds,” Buffett said. “I can’t imagine anyone having bonds in their portfolio when they can own equities, a diversified group of equities.”

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I found some interesting comparisons of returns of index fund and mutual funds.

From motley Fool website;

During the 1990s, the S&P 500 has provided an annualized return of 17.3%, compared with just 13.9% for the average diversified mutual fund.

And From Yahoo

In 1998, for instance, 85 percent of all mutual funds that were set up to beat the S&P 500 failed to meet that goal. When you think about it, that’s an amazing statistic — eight out of ten mutual funds didn’t beat the market!

Investing in a stock index fund guarantees that you’ll never outperform the overall but an index fund might give investors a higher return because of their cost advantage. Index funds have lower or zero fees, they also don’t hire expensive equity analyst. All that saving is passed to investors.

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