Archive for Mutual Funds

Wall Street Garage Sale Produces Closed End Fund Bargains

Topics: Closed end, mutual fund, CEF, ETF, sale, Wall Street, Buffet, Bogle, Gross, Schwab, Jaffe, investor, MarketWatch
There’s a bright light at the end of the tunnel— finally. Most of the really well respected, long term investors are advising their audiences to hang in there, to stop the panic selling, and to look for the great […]

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Winning With Mutual Funds

Topics: Adam Khoo, Financial Freedom, Financial Planning, Personal Finance, Wealth Building
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 […]

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Dont Let Your Investments Control You

Keywords: investing, stocks, personal wealth, investments
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 […]

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Portfolio Turnover: Should You Care?

Keywords: mutual funds, portfolio, portfolio turnover, stocks
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 […]

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Earnings Matter: S&P And Stock Market Investing

Keywords: index funds, mutual funds, 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 […]

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