Mutual Funds

Benefits of Investing in Mutual Funds - Find out some of the benefits of investing in mutual funds. Mutual funds are a great way to invest money. Find out how they can help your portfolio.

What is a Mutual Fund? - 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.

ETFs: New Wave or Riptide? - ETF trend and investment information.

A New Exchange Traded Fund: Silver and Gold have been recently trading at multi decade highs. - 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. Each share represents 10 ounces of silver.

Earnings Matter: S&P and Stock Market Investing - Mutual fund review, S&P and related earnings.

Winning With Mutual Funds - 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 - Sector funds have their place in your portfolio, not as core holdings, but as a diversified way of making targeted investments in selected niches.

Understanding The Concept Of An IRA - An IRA is an Individual Retirement Account, which provides either a tax-deferred or a tax-free way of saving for future retirement.

What are the Advantages of Structured Settlement Mutual Funds? - 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.

We Eluded the Bear of 2000 ! - The date October 13, 2000 will forever be embedded in my mind. It was the day after our mutual fund trend tracking indicator had broken its long-term trend line and I sold 100% of my clients’ invested positions (and my own) and moved the proceeds to the safety of money market accounts. Some people thought we were nuts, but I had come to trust the numbers.