Mutual Funds
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 [...]