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- an investment company that sells shares to investors and invests for their benefit.
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- Diversify Your 401K with ETFs
- As exchange-traded funds become increasingly popular with investors (ETF assets increased from $65.6 billion in 2000 to $422.6 billion in 2006), many retirement investment firms are pushing to increase ETF investment in the arena of 401k plans, where mutual funds have long been king. Many of the...
- Blog posts 2007-07-26
- Mutual Funds Go Cable Shopping
- Large media mutual funds appeared to be taking advantage of low-priced stocks and making bets on an improved advertising environment in the third quarter, beefing up on shares of CBS (NYSE: CBS) and News Corp (NYSE: NWS). while reducing their positions in distributors like Comcast (NSDQ: CMCSA) and Verizon...
- External links 2009-11-29
- Wind Shift or Sea Change?
- A close analysis of stock and fund returns shows patterns hidden by the broader market indexes. The article reminds that mutual funds are not the most exciting approach to investing. But perhaps excitement is overrated. In terms of performance, funds will never compete with the most successful single issues of...
- White papers 2003-04-01
- Get Ready for the Next Round
- It's been a tough three years for mutual fund investors, but you can't afford to quit the fight now. Here's how to get off the ropes and win. On the following article, it is discussed long-term case for sticking with stock funds in a bear market and show you the...
- White papers 2003-02-01
- A Brief History
- A veteran mutual fund manager looks back at the industry -- and calls for changes ahead. The article reminds that as mutual funds gained popularity, fund management evolved from a business into an industry. Funds were offered in every category of stock and bond style boxes. To investigate further into...
- White papers
- Your Own Private Mutual Fund
- More and more investors are signing up for separately managed accounts, the financial equivalent of chrome hubcaps and vanity plates. Think of a SMA as your own mutual fund for which you pay a flat fee as opposed to commissions. Making less money on transaction-based business whereas fee-based business is...
- White papers 2003-08-05
- Mutual Fund Profile Service (MFPS): Participant, Product & Distributions
- It is related to Mutual Fund Profile Service MFPS automates the flow of information between NSCC participants in a centralized system using standardized formats. Two distinct MFPS services, Price & Rate and Participant & Product, allow participants to exchange accurate and timely information of daily prices and dividend rates, firm...
- White papers
- Generalizations About Investing
- This article is about the investments related to mutual funds. It defines about the Generalizations of the investment that can be handle things. Take the generalizations in the language of investing The article explain this term with the help of example...
- White papers 2003-01-01
- Banks and Mutual Funds
- Mutual funds are the fastest-growing segment of the financial-services industry. The author traces the growth of mutual funds and describes the major functionaries employed by a mutual fund, including banks and bank holding companies. The study also examines how banks have entered the distribution channel by selling mutual funds to...
- White papers 1996-02-01
- Money Market Funds
- "If investing a large portion of your retirement fund in the stock market or equity fund gives you cold sweat, you may be interested in considering investing in a money market mutual fund. The article shows that money market funds are divided into two categories: taxable and tax-free. If you're...
- White papers
- When to Sell a Mutual Fund
- If you own a mutual fund yielding a return that is lower than you anticipated, you may be tempted to cash in your fund units and put your money somewhere else. The rates of returns of alternate funds may look enticing, but be careful as there are both pros and...
- White papers
- Understanding Volatility Measurements of Mutual Funds
- When considering a fund's volatility, an investor may find it difficult to decide which fund will provide the optimal risk-reward combination. Many websites provide various volatility measures for mutual funds free of charge; however, it can be hard not only to know what the figures mean but also how to...
- White papers 2003-07-23
- How to Pick Stocks - Part Two of Eight
- Whether you are a small individual investor, mutual fund manager, day trader, or stockbroker, you need a strategy for picking stocks. There is no single strategy that works for every investor, and sometimes a combination of different strategies can produce the best results. In this article, the quantitative factors to...
- White papers
- Betting on the Horses: Can You Pick the Winners at the Mutual Fund Track?
- If you've ever lost money betting at the horse track, you can probably sympathize with the large chunk of the population throwing their hands up in despair because their mutual funds' performances didn't place. In fact, some would say that picking a winning mutual fund is such a hopeless endeavor...
- White papers 2003-06-02
- Do Focused Funds Provide a Better Outlook?
- Finding an appropriate asset mix with the right level of risk for your portfolio can be difficult, but many types of mutual funds can help you achieve the right balance. The focused fund is one type of mutual fund that has gained investors' interest over the years. Managers of focused...
- White papers 2003-05-28
- Maintaining Your Mutual Fund Equilibrium
- So you've established an asset allocation strategy that is right for you, but at the end of the year, you find that the weighting of each fund in your portfolio has changed! What happened? Over the course of the year, the market value of each fund within your portfolio has...
- White papers 2003-05-14
- Mutual Fund Performance and Seemingly Unrelated Assets
- Estimates of standard performance measures can be improved by using returns on assets not used to define those measures. Alpha, the intercept in a regression of a fund's return on passive benchmark returns, can be estimated more precisely by using information in returns on non-benchmark passive assets, whether or not...
- White papers 2001-04-01
- Class B Mutual Fund Shares: Do They Make the Grade?
- Buying mutual funds through a broker or other investment professional usually means choosing among different mutual fund classes. The only differences among these classes is how much you will pay in expenses and how much your broker will be paid for selling you the fund. A single mutual fund, with...
- White papers 2003-06-25
- Principal-Protected Funds - Security Has a Price
- The recent bear market has left many investors worried more about securing the return of their investment dollars than about the return on their investments. Financial product providers have responded by marketing new types of mutual funds that pledge to guarantee, for a set period of time, that the capital...
- White papers 2003-05-27
- Mutual Fund Breakpoints: A Break Worth Taking
- Mutual funds often offer discounts on front-end sales charges or loads for larger investments. The investment levels at which the discounts become available are called "breakpoints." The purpose of this article is to discuss that investors have not received breakpoints discounts to which they're entitled in many instances and that...
- White papers 2003-01-14
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