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Buy and Hold: How to Perpetuate Your Investment Losses


A recent cartoon in my daily newspaper showed two guys sitting in a bar. One is saying to the other: "I did learn something from my broker.

No Load Mutual Funds or Exchange Traded Funds (ETFs)?


If you are fed up with early redemption charges and ever increasing mutual fund management fees on top of bad-performing fund managers, read on. There is a quiet revolution going on in the no-load mutual fund industry and you, the individual investor, may benefit from it greatly.

How (NOT) to Buy Mutual Funds


When it comes to mutual funds, there is a lot more to success than just finding a good one. Sad investment stories like the following are all too common.

How to Maximize Your 401k Mutual Fund Returns


When it comes to 401k's there is an overabundance of sad stories. Here is one that at least has a happy ending-and it's getting happier all the time.

How to Evaluate Load vs. No Load Mutual Funds


If you have been dealing with mutual funds for any length of time, you undoubtedly have faced the question of which is better: Load Funds or No Load Funds. If you are new to investing, "load" simply refers to the commission paid to the broker selling the fund.

How to Find Value in No Load Mutual Fund Investing


What are you thinking when it comes to your no load mutual fund selections? Are you saving pennies and sacrificing dollars?Are you spending your time looking at expense ratios, analyzing Morningstar ratings and searching for funds with low fees and no 12b1 charges? If you are like most people, you know these things in and out. You've spent hours evaluating them, and your chosen mutual funds cost little to purchase and maintain.

The Inside Scoop on Mutual Fund Rip Offs


The bear market that showed up at the end of 2000 has every brokerage house-as well as the entire mutual fund industry-scrambling to find creative ways to boost both their image and bottom line. Unfortunately, this is often at the investors' expense.

How to Pay Less and Get More: Discount Broker vs Professional


How do you invest? What do you really pay? At the end of the day, what are your real results? These are questions smart investors should be asking themselves (but usually don't). In this era of more fees, misc.

How 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.

Lifestyle Funds Provide Greater Security?


With the stock market stubbornly refusing to settle down and smooth out, Wall Street has been scrambling to come up with "product" they can sell to gun shy investors.One such new concept is the Lifestyle fund; an extremely diversified package designed to be the single fund in an investor's portfolio.

Long-Term Investment In Todays Market?


The stock market is very unstable at this time going up and down while interest rates are so low you want to be a borrower and not a lender. Would you like some suggestions on how can you get the most out of low interest rates while being assured your principal will not disappear while you are trying to make some money? Of course, there is always the danger of borrowing the money and then spending it just because it is there.

Leverage - Margin Debt


What is leverage?Here is a definition of leverage from an online dictionary "leverage - The use of credit or borrowed funds to improve one's speculative capacity and increase the rate of return from an investment, as in buying securities on margin."Essentially, the core idea of leverage is that investors can use less money to control bigger amount of investment so that investors can make more money when the price movement is in investors' favor.

A Common Misconception about Stock Prices


I cringe every time I hear a novice investor tell me that they only purchase low priced stocks because they offer higher potential gains. A common phase I hear is "I like to buy $1 and $2 stocks because they can double easily and I will make a 100% profit".

Good Stock Market Tip; Good Return!


Forget making a profit; instead focus on the income provided from your stock portfolio. That's right! Forget making a profit.

A Good Fund Manager


Every Wall Street analyst, financial planner and broker will tell you that the right way to pick a mutual fund is find a good money manager of a fund that has a long time record.Yes, I believe that too, but it is amazing that when you go back in time to see what this genius did with the mutual fund, you will find years he has had some terrible losses.

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Like other stocks, mutual funds show heavy losses during 2008
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City pension funds may cost taxpayers
Allentown Morning Call, PA - Jan 4, 2009
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Value? Growth? Both!
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Be Wary Of US Treasury Bonds in 2009
HoweStreet.com, Canada - Jan 3, 2009
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New Money features for you
USA Today - Dec 15, 2008
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