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The Keys to Picking a Bond Fund

Feb 24, 2014

If you don't want to have all your assets in the stock market, that means you'll need to consider either cash or bonds for your portfolio....

What Everyone Should Know About Mutual Funds

Feb 24, 2014

The goal of this article is to introduce each of you to some of the less transparent issues I consider in order to select better funds for...

Two Ways to Protect Yourself From Rising Interest Rates

Feb 24, 2014

By now, I am sure that you are familiar with the inverse relationship between bond prices and interest rates. When interest rates go down,...

Using Absolute Return Funds to Protect Yourself From a Falling Stock Market

Feb 24, 2014

Unless things turn around this year, we will have had a declining market in four of the past five years. Many analysts, me included, are...

Managing Your Mutual Funds

Feb 24, 2014

Americans are investing a greater share of their retirement savings in mutual funds. The number of mutual funds available through...

Mutual Funds vs. Stock Ownership: Which is Best for Your Investing Style?

Feb 24, 2014

When you purchase a share of stock, you purchase a piece of a company. When you purchase a share of a mutual fund, you are purchasing a...

Mutual Funds: More Bang for Your Buck

Feb 24, 2014

With the recent corporate scandals still fresh in investor's minds, where can one turn to invest with relative safety and have the prospect...

Avoiding the Most Common Mistakes in Mutual Fund Investing

Feb 24, 2014

Mutual funds have become the investment of choice for millions of individual investors. Unfortunately, with a frustrating stock market,...

Do You Know What You are Paying For?

Feb 24, 2014

A study published in the Journal of Financial Research indicated that the fees charged by the average stock fund were unchanged during the...

Mutual Distrust and What You Can Do About It

Feb 24, 2014

When my Daddy's car was getting low on gas and he'd roll by a garage that didn't have its fuel prices posted on big signs, he would observe...

The Real Deal on Indexing

Feb 24, 2014

If you can't beat them, join them. That's the approach many new stock investors take. The stock portion of their investments consists of...

Why you should hate Mutual Funds?

Feb 24, 2014

For decades, mutual funds were the favored investment vehicle for the majority of the investing public. The primary reasons for their...

Skip Plan B (Along with Plans A and C)

Feb 24, 2014

Some mutual fund families offer several classes of shares that differ in the way they charge fees to shareholders. Classes A, B, and C are...

How Enhanced Index Investing Can Be Used To Enhance Your Investment Portfolio

Feb 24, 2014

In the 1970s, firms like Vanguard began offering passively managed index funds to U.S. investors. Unlike actively managed funds, index...

The ABC's of Investing and Why You Should Avoid Them

Feb 24, 2014

If you're not educated on the ABC's, you could end up with a D or an F in portfolio management. The ABC's I'm referring to are the share...

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