Posts Tagged ‘
mutual funds ’
Oct 29th, 2008 |
By Steve McDonald |
Category: Financial News
“Living on $1700 a month sounds like a very slow, painful existence. Not what I planned for in my retirement.” If you aren’t already aware of it, the baby boomers have started to retire. They first hit the system a few years ago. Over the next twenty to thirty years, our culture will be challenged as never before by the largest shift of population ever to leave a work force and begin retirement.
Tags: FNM, FRE, Investment Strategy, mutual funds, Social Security System, Steve McDonald, tax-free bonds
Posted in Financial News |
Oct 28th, 2008 |
By Keith Fitz-Gerald |
Category: Featured
The wild market swings of late are most likely down to hedge funds says Keith Fitz-Gerald. These big money movers are liquidating assets to meet margin calls, causing chaos in the markets. Keith has four tips on how to dodge the worst of the damage.
Tags: CME, commodities markets, commodity etf, CPFXX, credit crisis, hedge funds, inverse ETFs, Keith Fitz-Gerald, mutual funds, RYURX, SKF, US recession
Posted in Featured |
Oct 20th, 2008 |
By Dan Amoss |
Category: Stock Market Investing
Last week, market volatility reached record levels. Dan Amoss says the wild gyrations in stocks are the result of hedge funds liquidating assets to cover their highly-leveraged positions. This means some good firms — especially those providing vital functions in the food and energy markets — are now massively undervalued.
Tags: bear market, Dan Amoss, gold resources, hedge funds, Lehman Brothers, mutual funds, US stocks
Posted in Stock Market Investing |
Oct 15th, 2008 |
By Alexander Green |
Category: Stock Market Investing
Market volatility has investors flooding into Treasury bonds. This has pushed yields down and created a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity in muni bonds, according to Oxford Club’s Alexander Green.
Tags: Alexander Green, CPI, credit crisis, Muni bonds, mutual funds, NIO, Treasury Bonds, US elections
Posted in Stock Market Investing |
Aug 8th, 2008 |
By Chris Mayer |
Category: Stock Market Investing
I’ve long held that mutual funds are full of bad habits, like a boy who can’t stop picking his nose and burping at the dinner table. If you had to design a poor investor, you need look no further than the typical mutual fund.
Tags: , CGMFX, Chris Mayer, FAIRX, LLPFX, mutual funds, TAVFX
Posted in Stock Market Investing |
Jun 16th, 2008 |
By Steve Sjuggerud |
Category: Stock Market Investing
The name “Nifty Fifty” came to represent the “one-decision” stocks of the early 1970s. They were the Cokes and the Disneys of the world… Fifty names you always bought simply because you couldn’t go wrong owning them. Or so investors thought…
Tags: bonds, Coke, Disney, Earnings, mutual funds, NFT, Nifty Fifty Stocks, Share Prices, US stocks
Posted in Stock Market Investing |
Jun 16th, 2008 |
By Ajit Dayal |
Category: Emerging Markets
Investing in stock markets in a growing economy like India will generally give you better long term returns than investing in bank accounts. The logic is that, when an economy is growing, it means that the various businesses that make up the entire economy are - in total - growing.
Tags: Blue Chips, Emerging Markets, ETFs, Infosys, mutual funds, NFO, NSE, Quantum Index ETF, Quantum Index Fund, Reliance, Stock Markets, Tata Steel
Posted in Emerging Markets |
May 19th, 2008 |
By Ajit Dayal |
Category: Politics & Economics
The GDP, gross domestic product, of any economy is the sum of all economic activity that occurs in every household, in every company, at all levels across the economy. So, if you buy a pair of jeans at the store there is a lot of GDP involved.
Tags: Casinos, Economic Activity, Gdp, Gross Domestic Product, Indian Stock Market, Indias GDP, mutual funds, Quantum Mutual Funds, SEBI, Stock Prices
Posted in Politics & Economics |
May 7th, 2008 |
By William Patalon III |
Category: International Investing
There’s an old Wall Street adage that tells us that “the trend is your friend.” And there’s a witty bit of wisdom we’ve developed here at Money Morning to help guide our readers and us that says: “Go global or go home.”
Tags: Alternative Energy, Asia, biotech, Capitalist Markets, china, commodites, Commodity Prices, global credit crisis, Global Markets, Global Trends, gold, India, mergers and aquisitions, mutual funds, real estate, sovereign wealth funds, US dollar, US economy, Weak Dollar
Posted in International Investing |
Apr 2nd, 2008 |
By Contrarian Profits |
Category: Featured, Financial News, Stock Market Investing
US markets marked the strongest second quarter start since 1938, reports Money Morning.
The rally in financial stocks led the three major indexes to post gains of more than 3%.
At the New York close, the blue-chip Dow Jones Industrial Average Index had posted a gain of 391.96 points (3.20%), to close at 12,654.85.
Tags: Blue Chip, Dow Jones, Dow Jones Industrial, Dow Jones Industrial Average, Dow Jones Industrial Average Index, Financial Sector, Financial Stocks, Longleaf Partners Fund, mutual funds, Nasdaq Composite Index, S 500, Stock Market, Technology Sector, Third Avenue International Value Fund, Tweedy Browne Global Value, Tweedy Browne Global Value Fund
Posted in Featured, Financial News, Stock Market Investing |