Stocks, in the year 2016, started out on a terrible note but quickly made up for it with record highs. Everyone is hoping that the economy will boom in the year 2017. Some of the best stocks to invest in 2017 will include the following according to U.S. News: Ulta Salon Cosmetics & Fragrance (ULTA) ULTA has exceeded expectations time after time, one quarter to the next.

The stock market for beginners makes for an equally alluring and lucrative investment opportunity as much as it appears to be confusing and risky. The steep rise and fall of the markets are enough to send shivers down the spines of beginners. However, history has shown that investing in stocks has been one of the most profitable and easiest methods of building wealth over a long period.

The general advice of the stock market always has been – buy stocks for the long-term. One will ask what the ‘length’ of the term should be. When you buy a stock, think of yourself as a business partner forever – that is, until you need the cash. Still, thinking about forever even in terms of, say, 30 years is quite inconceivable.

Fixed income investments have been a very popular form of investment. They usually pay the returns on a fixed, predetermined schedule, although the amount of the payments could vary. While the individual bonds may be the most-known kind of fixed income securities, the category of fixed income investments also includes money market funds, CDs, bond funds, and fixed income exchange-traded funds (ETFs), which shall be discussed in this article.

A bond fund is one of the popular investment pools. Basically, a fund that is invested in bonds or other debt instruments is called a bond fund; it is also known as a debt fund. Investments of bond funds may contain government, municipal, agency, corporate bonds and assets-backed securities. Some bond funds focus on covering the wide bond market by investing in both short and long-term bonds and some other bond funds focus on the narrower portion of the bond market investing in short-term treasury fund or a corporate high-yield fund.