Mutual Funds

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.

A New Exchange Traded Fund: Silver and Gold have been recently trading at multi decade highs. - Last week after much publicity and a long wait, the Barclay\'s Silver ETF (SLV) finally started trading. And it looks like the wait was worth it. Each share represents 10 ounces of silver.

What is a Mutual Fund? - In a Mutual Fund, the fund manager trades the fund's underlying securities, realizing their capital gains or loss, and collects the dividend or say the interest income.

We Eluded the Bear of 2000 ! - The date October 13, 2000 will forever be embedded in my mind. It was the day after our mutual fund trend tracking indicator had broken its long-term trend line and I sold 100% of my clients’ invested positions (and my own) and moved the proceeds to the safety of money market accounts. Some people thought we were nuts, but I had come to trust the numbers.

What are the Advantages of Structured Settlement Mutual Funds? - When you have been awarded a settlement due to arbitration or through the order of a judge as a result of a lawsuit, one of the options open for receiving the award is by accepting structured mutual funds.

Exchange Traded Funds (ETFs) Load Mutual Funds ? - If you are fed up with early redemption charges and ever increasing mutual fund management fees on top of bad-performing fund managers, read on. There is a quiet revolution going on in the no-load mutual fund industry and you, the individual investor, may benefit from it greatly. I am referring to Exchange Traded Funds (ETFs), which have been around for years, but have grown tremendously since their inception. There are currently over 100 choices with around $10 billion in assets.

The Roth IRA - A True Highlight of the "Ownership Society" - The Roth IRA is particularly useful for hands-on investors and the self-employed, but almost everyone can benefit from opening and fully-funding a Roth IRA.

Portfolio Turnover: Should You Care? - Many mutual fund screening tools have portfolio turnover as one of their filters and you can usually find a fund's turnover (expressed as a percentage) on the fund's snapshot page or by doing a little digging on the fund's website.

Mutual Funds-One Of The Financial World's Most Popular Investment Vehicles - For a relatively small investment, mutual funds give individual investors the ability to buy a diverse portfolio of stocks and / or other financial instruments - all in one transaction.

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.