Nellie S. Huang
Nellie S. Huang joined Kiplinger in August 2011 as a senior associate editor for the investing team. She writes and edits stories covering stocks and bonds, exchange-traded funds and mutual funds. She shepherds the magazine’s Kiplinger 25, a list of Kiplinger’s favorite actively managed mutual funds, and she launched the Kiplinger ETF 20, a list of our favorite exchange-traded funds. Her stories help readers invest wisely for long-term goals, such as retirement and college savings. She has also written about digital advisers and online brokers, as well as how to read an annual report and a mutual fund prospectus. In every article, she strives to make complex investing topics accessible to everyone by writing in plain language and simple terms.
Kiplinger isn't Nellie's first foray into personal finance: Nellie was a senior editor at Money, where she worked with young reporters writing about personal finance stories. She also worked for a decade at SmartMoney, covering a variety of topics, from banking and credit cards to real estate and retirement. Later, she wrote exclusively about investing, covering mutual funds and stocks. During her tenure there, she won a Personal Finance Journalism award from the Investment Company Institute for a story she wrote on mutual funds and was a contributor to a story on saving for college tuition that won a National Magazine Award in the Personal Service category. She also co-authored two books, The SmartMoney Stock Picker’s Bible and The SmartMoney Guide to Long-term Investing.
Prior to joining Kiplinger, Nellie spent more than a decade in Hong Kong. She worked for the Wall Street Journal Asia, where as lifestyle editor she launched and edited Scene Asia, an online guide to food, wine, entertainment and the arts in Asia. Prior to that, she was an editor at Weekend Journal, the Friday lifestyle section of the Wall Street Journal Asia.
Nellie graduated from Dartmouth College with a bachelor’s degree in Asian Studies and started her journalism career at Manhattan,inc. magazine (later M magazine) as an assistant to Clay Felker, the late legendary American magazine editor. She lives in Bethesda, Md., with her husband and three children.
Latest articles by Nellie S. Huang
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Best Bond Funds for Every NeedInvesting for Income In a changing market, it’s important to remember why we hold bonds in the first place.
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How to Build a Bond PortfolioBecoming an Investor No single bond (or even bond fund) can do it all. We'll help you match your goals with appropriate fixed-income picks.
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Baron Emerging Markets Snaps BackKip 25 Few expected a post-COVID rally in emerging-markets stocks, in part because of a belief that developing countries wouldn’t cope well with the pandemic.
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10 Stocks to Invest in the Health Care Revolutionhealthcare stocks These companies are fighting disease and improving our standard of care.
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Oakmark International Disappoints UsKip 25 When this fund is good, it shines relative to peers, but when it is bad, it fares far worse.
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Four Changes to the Kiplinger ETF 20Making Your Money Last Low-volatility strategies disappointed, leading to four changes in the lineup.
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A Mid-Cap Fund With Big Gainsmutual funds The fund’s best performers over the past year were software firms.
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Vanguard Target Retirement 2030 Keeps Its Eye on the Prizeinvesting With these retirement-focused funds, staying put is the best strategy.
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Amplify Online Retail: A Bet on How We Will Shop
investing This ETF invests in fast-growing internet retailers around the world.
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Keep a Delicate Balance With Foreign Stocks
Foreign Stocks & Emerging Markets Near term, a bias to U.S. stocks makes sense. But long term, you need to capitalize on recoveries in the rest of the world as well.
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6 Stocks to Buy and Hold (And 6 Picks to Avoid)stocks Stocks in high-quality firms -- financially strong, well-established companies with lots of cash and little debt -- are better equipped to withstand troubled times and rough markets.
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How to Read an Annual Report
investing Focusing on the highlights can tip you off to important trends.
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Most of the Kip 25 Stay Out of the Doghouse
Kip 25 Every year, we look back at how our favorite low-fee mutual funds performed.
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A Deep Bench Bodes Well for Fidelity Intermediate Municipal IncomeKip 25 Another manager is retiring, but this fund is run by a dynamic team of mostly longtime members.
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Funds That Prosper From Fighting Climate Changeinvesting Sustainable investing, sometimes called ESG for the environmental, social and governance criteria that define the investing style, has taken the fund world by storm.
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6 Stocks, 3 Bond Funds That Are Good for the Environment and Your Portfoliostocks Sustainable investing hasn’t just arrived; it’s fast becoming a bedrock principle.
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Tapping the Power of a Health Savings Accountsavings Health savings accounts help defray the cost of high-deductible health plans. They’re also a powerful way to invest for retirement.
By Nellie S. Huang
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Coronavirus Infects Global Markets
Markets Daily updates about the COVID-19 virus are rattling investors’ nerves everywhere.
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Health Care ETF Finishes Strong
investing Despite Invesco S&P 500 Equal Weight Health Care ETF lagging the S&P 500 most of the year, it still finished out 2019 up more than 20%.
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Is a Debt Bomb Ticking?
investing Corporations have amassed a ton of debt. Protect yourself with these funds and ETFs.
By Nellie S. Huang
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Kiplinger’s Mutual Fund Rankings
mutual funds Mutual fund records were toppled in the U.S. in 2019, but foreign shares also rose.
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4 Reasons to Sell a Mutual Fund
investing Buy-and-hold is a great investing approach, but sometimes you just gotta let go.
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AMG TimesSquare International Small Cap’s Turnaround
Kip 25 Two of the fund’s biggest losers became its biggest winners in 2019.
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10 Best Stocks of the Past 10 Yearsstocks These companies powered through the past decade. Can they keep it up?
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