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 [...]