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1). Portable Alpha - What It Is, Where to Get It, and How to Use It
So much is being written about the emergence of “Quantitative Funds” and why this type of investment is becoming popular among both individual and professional investors. Eleanor Laise, in her Wall Street Journal article titled “Stock-Picker Jobs Going to Computers” wrote that “investors are attracted to quant funds for their non-emotional, disciplined method of investing.
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2). Momentum Investing and Trend Following: The Secret to Significant Portfolio Returns
Two popular terms which often confuse investors are "trend following" and "momentum investing." Perhaps the most glaring commonality between these two is their blatant defiance of "buy and hold," the practice of selecting an investment and holding it indefinitely, believing that over time the market goes up, and therefore any investment will appreciate.
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3). WHY THE FINANCIAL NEWS MEDIA CAN COST YOU MONEY!
The communication innovations we have around us today like the internet, financial newspapers, and special interest television channels focused on investing like CNBC are a high speed pipeline of nonsensical chatter. All these sources of information mean that there is no shortage of media people trying to answer our questions about the stock market and specific stocks.
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4). A New Exchange Traded Fund May Have a Major Impact on Long Term Silver Prices
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.
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5). Real Estate Investing: No Lawyers, No Debt, No Plungers
Real Estate investing is not nearly as legally complicated, financially burdensome, or time consuming as you might think. In fact, it is easy to add raw land, shopping centers, apartment complexes, and private homes to your portfolio without Brokers, Bankers, Attorneys, and a Rolodex full of maintenance professionals' phone numbers. Even better, you can blend your Real Estate investments into your security portfolio for ease of management, income monitoring, diversification analysis, etc.
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6). Investing In Bonds and Bond Mutual Funds Can Be A Good Deal.
Investments in fixed-income securities have their own special risks, but also come with their own rewards.
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7). Income Investing: Selecting the Right Stuff
When is 3 percent better than 6 percent? Yeah, we all know the answer, but only until the prices of the securities we already own begin to fall. Then, logic and mathematical acumen disappear and we become susceptible to all kinds of special cures for the periodic onset of higher interest rates. We’ll be told to sit in cash until rates stop rising, or to sell the securities we own now, before they lose even more of their precious Market Value.
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8). Mutual funds: protect yourself with segregated funds
Segregated funds were initially developed by the insurance industry to compete against mutual funds. Today, many mutual fund companies are in partnership with insurance companies to offer segregated funds to investors. Segregated funds offer some unique benefits not available to mutual fund investors.
Segregated funds offer the following major benefits that are not offered by the traditional mutual fund.
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9). How to select a mutual fund
One of the most common ways of selecting a mutual fund is to invest with the crowd in today's hot funds. Unfortunately, jumping from one winning fund to another is a recipe for disaster. The mutual funds that the crowd follows typically have had a hot recent performance and tend to gather all the new mutual fund sales.
Investors as a whole are primarily allocating their new investments to a small number of mutual funds and to a smaller number of mutual fund companies.
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10). What are mutual funds loads?
Copyright 2006 Michael Saville
Loads are the most talked about fees that mutual funds charge. A "load" on a mutual fund is just another way of saying that the fund charges a sales commission for purchase, sale, or both. There are funds that charge loads and there are funds that do not charge loads (known as "load funds" and "no load funds" respectively).
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11). Retirement Income Planning: Mutual Funds
When willing to invest in mutual funds for Supplemental Retirement Income Planning, you have millions of alternatives. It is always important to analyze the plan, its limitations and the risks you will be running, and thus, it would be easier for you to narrow your alternatives. For this matter, it could be helpful to get in contact with a Retirement Income Planning financial professional.
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12). Mutual Funds Expenses
Copyright 2006 Michael Saville
Sometimes investors think of mutual funds as a straight choice between no-load funds or load funds, because that is what they read about in the financial or popular press. But, there are a host of mutual fund expenses that can be charged to a no-load mutual fund as well as a load mutual fund.
About 99% of mutual funds charged fees.
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13). Mutual Funds - An Introduction and Brief History
Each one of us does not have the expertise or the time to build and manage an investment portfolio. There is an excellent alternative available – mutual funds.
A mutual fund is an investment intermediary by which people can pool their money and invest it according to a predetermined objective.
Each investor of the mutual fund gets a share of the pool proportionate to the initial investment that he makes.
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14). Be Cautious When Studying Mutual Fund Ratings
Wherever you look, you will find various rating systems on mutual funds, each of which uses a different approach. All of them are designed to weed through the thousands of funds to get to the best ones. But is there really such a thing? Does a high rating really mean a fund will do better in the future? Many people seem to think so. A recent study showed that Morningstar, North America's most recognized rating system for funds, has a tremendous influence on fund sales.
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15). The Key To Protecting Your Money
Have you ever experienced a major paradigm shift? You know, the kind where you think you already know something about something...
But suddenly, you learn something new about that 'something' that changes your whole perspective and outlook on the topic. If so, then you know exactly what I'm talking about.
Now, you know that something this powerful doesn't happen everyday.
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