Mutual Funds
Dont Let Your Investments Control You
Which of your investments worried you most during the recent market correction? If it was one of your smaller holdings, you’re not alone.
We all have only so much time and so many brain cells to devote to investing. If you’re focusing yours on a tiny portion of your investments, the […]
Sector Funds: More Than Meets The Eye
Believe that a part of the economy will be particularly strong or a part of the stock market is undervalued?
Sector mutual funds are one way of investing in market niches. Sector funds enable you to pinpoint your investments in areas such as health care, biotech, and technology (or financials, after the Fed rate cut).
ETFs […]
Winning With Mutual Funds
A mutual fund (called ‘unit trust’ in Asia) is an investment vehicle that pools money from many individual investors. A professional fund manager invests and manages these funds into stocks, bonds and other securities.
People usually invest in mutual funds because it is offers the advantage of broad diversification (it spreads your money over tens […]
Earnings Matter: S&P and Stock Market Investing
The S&P 500 is up about 7.5% thus far this year. That’s a good return for just over six months. Will it keep going up? Consider this. The earnings of the S&P 500 companies are expected to grow by about 5% in 2007, according to a leading Wall Street brokerage firm. That […]
ETFs: New Wave or Riptide?
There was an excellent article discussing the pros and cons of investing in Exchange Traded Funds (ETFs) in the July 3rd Wall Street Journal: As ETFs Seek Niches, Risks Rise (unfortunately, The Wall Street Journal doesn’t allow us to link to their articles, perhaps that will change after Rupert Murdoch buys Dow Jones.) There’s over […]
Portfolio Turnover: Should You Care?
One of the mantras of mutual fund investing is to look at a fund’s turnover before you buy it. The implication is that a high turnover is bad. (Turnover is the percentage of a funds holdings that are traded during a year. Funds can have a turnover greater than 100%, which means […]
Investing: Dow Drops 2700 Points
It’s a headline that every stock market investor fears will happen. The markets crash and their hard-earned nest egg evaporates. They’re forced to go back to work and must resort to eating beans and rice. Is that fear justified? No.
Stock markets around the world dropped on Tuesday. The news media echoed that it was the […]
The Roth IRA - A True Highlight of the “Ownership Society”
Since its inception in 1998, the Roth IRA, (”Roth” for its legislative sponsor, the late Senator William Roth, and “IRA” for individual retirement account), has been one of the most popular retirement vehicles in the United States.
The Roth IRA is particularly useful for hands-on investors and the self-employed, but almost everyone can benefit from […]
Mutual Funds-One Of The Financial World’s Most Popular Investment Vehicles
Mutual funds are one of the financial world’s most popular investment vehicles, and for good reason.
For a relatively small investment, these funds give individual investors the ability to buy a diverse portfolio of stocks and / or other financial instruments - all in one transaction.
If you have just two or more mutual funds, […]
What is a Mutual Fund?
A Mutual Fund can be termed as a form of a collective investment that collects money from many investors and invests the money into stocks, bonds, short-term money market instruments, and / or other securities.
In this type fund, the fund manager trades the fund’s underlying securities, realizing their capital gains or loss, and collects […]
