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A tax free money market fund is a good mode to balance your portfolio particularly if it is equity heavy. In existing economic situation, there is a lot of uncertainty. So, it makes sense to put some (read
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It doesn't matter how old you, it is never too early to begin planning your retirement. In fact, the younger you are when you start saving, the more money you will have when you do finally retire. The (read
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Whether one is living in difficult or robust economic times, it is always important to have an investment strategy that includes relatively safe investments. One form of investment is known as Fixed I (read
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If you're an investor, I bet you listen to the advice of the big names in investing. You probably are buying their newsletters. Ever ask yourself if their making money on the market or just off you? I (read
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Mutual Fund Ratings, A Successful Investing Formulas John Caldwell now you must know what mutual funds are. However, what you may not have understood yet, is mutual fund ratings. These ratings refer t (read
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Most people think of investing in Bonds as being a dry subject,
and to a degree, they are right. However, boring can sometimes
be a good thing, especially when it comes to investments. Too
much "exci (read
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We have all heard the advantages of investing in a mutual fund
over trying to pick individual stocks. First of all mutual funds
hire professional analysts that are market experts and devout
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While total and compound annual returns are useful, savvy
investors will look deeper, using a variety of metrics, to get a
more complete picture on mutual fund performance.On January 1, 2006, a leadi (read
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If you have money to invest, you might contemplate investing in
mutual fund. What is mutual fund? Mutual fund is simply a
collection of stocks that are bought using money pooled from
various individu (read
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Pretend, for a moment, that you have a gut feeling the market will be falling. You think that oil, the hurricane, the economy, whatever, is going to ultimately bring down the market.Should you get ou (read
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If you think mutual fund performance is the whole story, watch out! You could make a very expensive mistake by not considering the costs of a mutual fund! The lower a fund’s costs, the higher percen (read
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Let's say you are interested in this one company. You read its annual report, like what you see and your calculation indicates that the stock is trading way below its fair value. You are excited. It i (read
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You have heard about a particular mutual
fund from a friend, saw it advertised on TV or read
about it in some publication thought it would be
a good buy. Next you call your broker to get his
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A Guide to Using Stop Loss Orders Stop losses are market orders designed to allow you to limit your losses.When you place a stop loss you are instructing the spread betting company or stock broker to (read
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Mutual Funds are considered to be one of the best investments one can get hands on. They’re very flexible and cost-effective. An excellent investment for people with restricted knowledge, time or, mon (read
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One of the main reasons many of us get into investing is to become financially independent. Who isn't trying to amass a portfolio with enough income to ensure that we don't have to work when we should (read
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If you were to find that you had some severe illness that required surgery, would you attempt to perform that surgery upon yourself? What if your car broke down and needed a valve job? Would you get (read
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Mutual funds were created with the idea that one person can specialize and manage the investments of a large pool of money from multiple investors. Before the great depression mutual funds were calle (read
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Let’s go into the details of why non-indexed mutual funds are such a bad deal. When Arthur Levitt became the head of the Security Exchange Commission in 1993 he had to sell off all of his individual (read
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Arthur Levitt, during his tenure at the SEC, experienced many cases where the non-indexed mutual fund manager bought shares for their own accounts beforee the fund bought the shares. The fund’s purch (read
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Soft dollars, a form of legal kickback, is a sly way you can get ripped off by mutual fund managers. Full service brokers give these kickbacks to non-indexed mutual funds in the form of a “rebate” to (read
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Non-indexed mutual funds try to keep it secret that actively managed mutual very funds rarely do better stock market indexes. The higher fees of the managed funds really make it hard for these funds t (read
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Many investors think that investing in mutual funds is free. What nonsense! Funds collect more than $50 billion a year in fees from investors. That is truly a ton of money. The first way you get h (read
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A way that investors get ripped off and in a sense rip themselves off is based on the culture of performance in the mutual fund industry. If you stop and think about it there is absolutely no reason (read
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Mutual fund investing is a lot like Thai cooking. Everyone has heard of it, most know a little something about it, but very few actually know how to do it and do it well. To invest in mutual funds w (read
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As GuruFocus updates the stock buys and sells of gurus, Wal-Mart (WMT), the discount retail giant, stands out as the stock with a high ValueRank (7 out of 10). Just recently, Clipper Fund’s James Gips (read
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I mean it when I say that. While plastic silverware is fine for picnics and parties, it is totally inappropriate in a surgeon's hand with an open brain in front of him. Not only are plastic forks buil (read
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Do you have a nest egg? You know, a place you are stashing away money for the future - retirement, down payment on a house, the kids education. That kind of thing. How're you doing?If you have been pu (read
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You have a lock on your house. You have a lock on your car. You have a lock on your tool shed. Do you have a lock to protect your stock market investments?Maybe you have a safe at home for your valuab (read
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You may have wondered why your mutual funds have been going down for the past 2 years. The answer is very simple, but not one you will hear from Wall Street as they want you to send money.In order for (read
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Both the stock market and oil prices rallied recently, which seems to be a paradox, because high oil prices are negative for earnings (i.e. a higher production cost and a higher consumer tax). However (read
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Professional stock options traders use the term lean to refer to one’s perception about the directional strength of the stock. When you own a stock option and intend to hold it for a period of time, y (read
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Exchange Traded Funds (ETFs) are a group of passive index funds that trade on an exchange like an individual stock. At the time of writing there are 162 ETFs with $220 billion in assets under manageme (read
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Picking a beaten-down stock requires a different kind of selection process. Normally, most companies beaten down this far have no earnings to speak of. Of course, if the company continues to earn mone (read
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Minority Report the movie may not be far off if the Head of the SEC has anything to say about it. At a Senate Banking Committee hearing on CSPAN, William Donaldson said that the beloved SEC can no l (read
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This is the continuing story of our two imaginary traders, Peter and Paul.Peter is a professional trader, Paul is not. Peter has a tested, proven, written trading plan that he follows each time he ent (read
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We all know that emotions control every decision that an investor makes in any type of money related vehicle. Whether is be the stock market, real estate, art work or antiques, emotions ultimately se (read
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When will the stock market stop going down and start up again? If we knew that we’d all be jillionaires. So what do you do now while stocks are going down and stealing away your money every day?What d (read
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You probably know the story of Sherlock Holmes and the 7% solution. He had a drug addiction. He needed the drug. He was able to control his addiction by taking the drug in a 7% concentration. Anyone w (read
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Ever wondered what is a mutual fund? A mutual fund is a pool of money run by a professional or group of professionals called the “investment adviser.”A mutual fund is a company that pools money from m (read
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Outlined below are some of the advantages and disadvantages of mutual funds. Every investment has advantages and disadvantages. But it's important to remember that features that matter to one investor (read
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This is a guide to the different types of mutual funds. When it comes to investing in mutual funds, investors have literally thousands of choices.Before you invest in any given fund, decide whether th (read
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It is commonly reported that the stock market averages about 10% per year return over the long term (decades). So the investor that buys and holds a diversified portfolio of stocks or mutual funds is (read
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When purchasing mutual funds we are cautioned
to read the prospectus, look at past
performance, check out the fund manager’s record
and see what their expense ratios have been.We are also told that we (read
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Let’s discuss commodities; with the latest Enron situation, it is important to understand the way things work. A commodity is anything useful, especially a transportable agricultural product or mining (read
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Have you ever thought of investing? Do you have a family that you would like take care of? Does the idea of making money with stocks, bonds, mutual funds and real estate interest you?Investing is es (read
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