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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 advantage of broad diversification (it spreads your money . . . → Read More: Winning With Mutual Funds 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 on a tiny portion of your investments, the majority of . . . → Read More: Dont Let Your Investments Control You Believe that a part of the economy will be particularly strong or a part of the stock market is undervalued? Sector mutual funds are one way of investing in market niches. Sector funds enable you to pinpoint your investments in areas such as health care, biotech, and technology (or financials, after the Fed rate . . . → Read More: Sector Funds: More Than Meets The Eye 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 leading Wall Street brokerage firm. That means if . . . → Read More: Earnings Matter: S&P and Stock Market Investing There was an excellent article discussing the pros and cons of investing in Exchange Traded Funds (ETFs) in the July 3rd Wall Street Journal: As ETFs Seek Niches, Risks Rise (unfortunately, The Wall Street Journal doesn’t allow us to link to their articles, perhaps that will change after Rupert Murdoch buys Dow Jones.) There’s . . . → Read More: ETFs: New Wave or Riptide? 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 can have a turnover greater than 100%, which means that their . . . → Read More: Portfolio Turnover: Should You Care? |
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