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Covers:  Investments, accounting and financial reporting, executive compensation, corporate governance, public pensions and taxes.
Doesn't Cover: Non-investing personal finance
Writings on financial shenanigans, accounting, compensation, governance, and many, many baseball tweets.

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I write about the complex financial topics few other journalists care to. I specialize in investments, accounting and financial reporting, executive compensation, corporate governance, public pensions and taxes. Most recently, I wrote for The Globe and Mail, the national newspaper of Canada. I concluded work there in April 2025.

I have won nine national business journalism awards from the Society for Advancing Business Editing and Writing (SABEW) as an individual or as member of a team and have…

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A Guide to Today's Target-Date Funds

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By David Milstead Verified
| Kiplinger Verified
Follow us Add us as a preferred source on Google Subscribe to our newsletter Saving for retirement is hard. For many, investing that money may be even harder. Target-date funds have become a nearly $5 trillion industry by largely solving that problem. The "target date" is the year of an investor's expected retirement (but it could apply to any other long-term savings goal, such as college tuition).
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A Guide to Today's Target-Date Funds

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By David Milstead Verified
| Yahoo Finance Verified
"And that relationship holds in periods of market volatility, which is really critical," he says. Adds MILE's Wilson: "People who are in target-date funds tend not to panic. They're better behaviorally than other folks typically are." The downside is that investors may lull themselves into thinking a retirement-oriented fund is safer than other funds. Many target-date funds tumbled in the financial crisis of 2007-09.
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Beyond AI: Why Our Top Dividend Stocks Remain Reliable Picks

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By David Milstead Verified
| Inkl
Blue box with a check mark inside. Investor fervor for artificial intelligence (AI) keeps making dividend stocks look downright dumpy. Over the past 12 months, the S&P 500 has returned an eye-popping 29.8%, while the Kiplinger Dividend 15, the list of our favorite dividend-paying stocks, returned an average of 13.4%. Just three — Broadcom (AVGO), Johnson & Johnson (JNJ) and recent addition U.S. Bancorp (USB) — beat the market.
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