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  • Winning With Mutual Funds  By : Adam Khoo
    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.
  • Sector Funds: More Than Meets The Eye  By : Bill Byrnes
    Sector funds have their place in your portfolio, not as core holdings, but as a diversified way of making targeted investments in selected niches.
  • Dont Let Your Investments Control You  By : Bill Byrnes
    The key to building a strong investment portfolio is to set your goals and diversify but not have so many investments you cant follow and to avoid investments which are too small to be meaningful.
  • Portfolio Turnover: Should You Care?  By : Bill Byrnes
    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.
  • ETFs: New Wave or Riptide?  By : Bill Byrnes
    ETF trend and investment information.
  • Earnings Matter: S&P and Stock Market Investing  By : Bill Byrnes
    Mutual fund review, S&P and related earnings.
  • What are the Advantages of Structured Settlement Mutual Funds?  By : Mayoor Patel
    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.
  • Investing: Dow Drops 2700 Points  By : Jeffrey Voudrie
    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.
  • Mutual Fund As Your Alternative Investment Portfolio  By : Cornie Herring
    Mutual fund is a risk sharing investment portfolio, it provides you a medium of investing your money into a high earning stock & bond market while automatically diversify your investment to reduce your risk. Hence mutual fund can be your alternative of investment portfolio that will give you higher reward and lower risk.
  • What Are SRI Funds?  By : John Morris
    SRI is an acronym for Socially Responsible Investing. According to one source over $2 trillion of money managed professionally is currently being invested according to some type of "social criteria"...
  • How Mutual Funds Work  By : Joseph Kenny
    Mutual funds are good options for American investors to meet their financial goals. These funds offer professional management and diversification of the funds invested. Mutual funds assets in 1990-2000 rose from 1.065 trillion to a whooping 6.965 trillion dollars.
  • Understanding The Concept Of An IRA  By : William Smith
    An IRA is an Individual Retirement Account, which provides either a tax-deferred or a tax-free way of saving for future retirement.
  • What is a Mutual Fund?  By : William Smith
    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.
  • The Roth IRA - A True Highlight of the "Ownership Society"  By : William Smith
    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.
  • Mutual Funds-One Of The Financial World's Most Popular Investment Vehicles  By : William Smith
    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.
  • The Basics Of Mutual Fund Classes  By : Joseph Kenny -
    In order to get the most out of your returns, without paying a high fee, you need to be aware of the different classes of mutual fund stocks and their advantages and disadvantages. Mutual fund companies often charge a higher fee when you opt to invest in ‘high risk high return’ stocks. However, paying higher fees does not necessarily ensure high returns because stock prices fluctuate on a daily basis. This makes it difficult even for professional fund managers to predict the ...
  • Basics Of Federal Bond Issues  By : Joseph Kenny -
    Most people associate the term ‘investments’ with stocks and mutual funds, but Federal bond issues also constitute a major chunk of the overall investments market. The annual turnover of US Federal Bond issues is many times more than that generated by the collective stock markets. Although considered the safest investment options in the US, Federal Bonds are not free from obscurity. The following information will help you understand the basics of these bonds.

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  • Investing: Level-Headed or Lazy?  By : Robert Valentine
    Does passive investment management merit its "couch-potato" nickname or is it not getting the respect it deserves?
  • Index Funds: An Indicator of Stability?  By : Robert Valentine
    Index funds have become an increasingly popular investment. But are they right for you?
  • More Light is Shed on Mutual Funds  By : Robert Valentine
    Increased disclosure about mutual funds may give investors more information for their decisions.
  • Evergreen Mutual Funds Offer Solid Background  By : Jessica Deets
    There are a number of companies that handle investment for clients both large and small. Evergreen Mutual Funds is one such company. Falling into the mid- to large-size range as far as investment companies are concerned, this company provides its customers with a solid background and a proven track record.

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