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November 22, 2020

Welcome to this edition of The Reader, a weekly roundup of our stories and insights.

After such an unprecedented 2020, how should investors prepare for 2021? Our Investor’s Guide aims to answer that question.

For our centerpiece feature, four Fortune reporters fanned out to determine what kind of stocks might perform best in a global economy that should (we hope) turn the corner on the pandemic next year. We found companies in the U.S. and abroad that are positioned to grow rapidly as the world rebuilds.

We hope our Investor’s Guide makes you think—and makes you some money. 

Read on for more stories.

Clifton Leaf

Editor-in-chief, Fortune

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From the archives

“Let’s say you’ve never read a book on investing. You avoided Peter Lynch’s advice on how to get one up on Wall Street, dodged all the Internet get-rich-quick schemes, brushed off your in-laws’ efforts to get you to read Suze Orman, and finally steered clear of the various “crisis investing” titles that have appeared in the past few years.

If you’ve held off all these years, why buy an investing book today? For starters, stock markets obliterated billions of dollars of your money. Then they skyrocketed while many people — probably including you — sat on the sidelines. But there’s also the inconvenient fact that most Americans are now on the hook for managing their own retirement assets in some form or another — either in a 401(k) or IRA. You may have even already admitted it to yourself: It’s time for you become a better investor.”

—How to beat the street, May 2012

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