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The Motley Fool December 4, 2006 Dan Caplinger |
10 Trillion Reasons to Invest Mutual funds keep raking in the money.  |
Registered Rep. March 1, 2007 |
International Flight Over the last three years, foreign mutual funds have posted annual returns twice those notched by the S&P 500, prompting investors to dump shares of U.S. stock funds and park that cash overseas in search of fatter returns.  |
The Motley Fool January 5, 2007 Selena Maranjian |
Recent Trends in Mutual Funds Most of us hold some mutual funds. See how they've been growing lately.  |
The Motley Fool January 7, 2004 |
Beating the Market Can an actively managed mutual fund consistently post market-beating returns?  |
Registered Rep. March 12, 2012 Diana Britton |
Yield of Dreams: Are Investors Starting to Wake up and Smell the Rally? For months, we've been scratching our heads over why retail investors have been fleeing U.S. equity mutual funds and flocking to bond funds and U.S. Treasuries, where yields are practically non-existent.  |
Registered Rep. January 6, 2011 Diana Britton |
Muni Bond Outflows Could Last For Months; Equities Funds Gain in Popularity According to Lipper data, municipal bond mutual funds saw outflows of about $7 billion in November and $7.8 billion for the first four weeks of December.  |
Registered Rep. June 1, 2012 Diana Britton |
Alternatives Going Mainstream According to data released by Cerulli Associates and Strategic Insight/SIMFUND, alternative mutual funds account for 2.8 percent of overall mutual fund assets today. But Cerulli projects they will account for 9.7 percent of all mutual fund assets in five years.  |
The Motley Fool April 21, 2005 |
Don't Buy the Dividend! There's a bad time to buy into mutual funds.  |
Registered Rep. September 1, 2011 Diana Britton |
Retail Investors Still Risk Averse, Pull Money Out of Equity Mutual Funds Despite an opportunity to buy stocks on the cheap, retail investors still have a risk-averse bias, according to recent fund flows.  |
The Motley Fool March 3, 2004 Selena Maranjian |
Mutual Funds at Record Highs People are flocking to mutual funds despite recent scandals.  |
The Motley Fool January 13, 2004 Selena Maranjian |
The Fund Fee Fracas Are mutual fund fees too high?  |
Investment Advisor June 2009 James J. Green |
Numerology: Fund Flows Bounce Back Independent and regional broker/dealers, along with RIAs, will account for the majority of mutual fund net sales by the year 2013.  |
Registered Rep. November 24, 2010 Diana Britton |
Stampede Out Of Municipal Bonds Is Temporary; Reversal Ahead Record municipal bond outflows last week represent a short-term blip in the market, some industry sources say.  |
Registered Rep. February 16, 2012 David Geracioti |
Von Aldo: Schwab and Ameritrade's Institutional Business Poised for Rebound, Says Bernstein Brad Hintz, of Bernstein Research, says Ameritrade and Schwab will need a while before their businesses really get cranking.  |
Financial Planning May 1, 2011 Donna Mitchell |
Smaller is Beautiful Mutual fund investors made one thing clear in the first quarter of 2011: They put their trust in small-cap and mid-cap strategies to power economic growth and provide stability.  |
Financial Advisor February 2012 Marla Brill |
Muni Bond ETFs Join The Charge For Yields Despite some concerns, investors are being drawn to muni bond ETFs for diversification, transparency and low costs.  |
Financial Planning May 1, 2011 Chris Shayne |
Individual Choice Although it's been hard to compare the transaction costs of individual bonds and bond funds, new research is making it easier. Here's a way to see what it costs individual investors to purchase each type of fixed-income product.  |
Wall Street & Technology July 1, 2005 Maria Santos |
Investor Distrust According to a recent survey, less than one-third of U.S. households agree that their mutual fund companies can be trusted to advertise honestly, outperform their competitors or even do the right thing.  |
The Motley Fool January 15, 2010 |
Mutual Funds and Your Taxes How to account for what you buy and sell during the year.  |
BusinessWeek September 3, 2007 Jonathan Berr |
Shaky Times For Munis Depending on how the U.S. Supreme Court rules on an obscure point of tax law in its next session, the normally sleepy municipal bond market could be turned upside-down.  |
Financial Planning February 1, 2011 Donna Mitchell |
Equities Rising The economic recovery might be a slow and gradual one, as investors are constantly reminded, but mutual funds posted generally strong gains in the fourth quarter of 2010.  |
Financial Planning September 1, 2007 A. Ackerman & P. Schroeder |
The Bond Buyer Forcing more than 40 states to eliminate preferential tax treatment for their bonds would have dire consequences for investors and mutual fund issuers alike, attorneys for Kentucky recently warned the Supreme Court in a brief filed.  |
The Motley Fool January 29, 2007 Mary Dalrymple |
Tax Delays for Investors Some of your broker's tax information may come late this year. The delay should reduce the number of corrected forms, but it may not eliminate them entirely. So be on the lookout for corrections arriving in your mailbox.  |
Financial Planning July 1, 2009 Donald Jay Korn |
Down But Not Out For mutual funds, 2008 was the year of the ebb tide: Long-term funds saw net outflows of $226 billion. The carnage continued in the first quarter of 2009, when an additional $43 billion flowed out of equity funds.  |
The Motley Fool March 2, 2005 |
Hedge Funds Explained While the word "hedge" conjures up images of investors cautiously hedging their bets, hedge funds are often extra-risky, volatile investment vehicles that demand huge upfront investments, sometimes in the millions.  |
Investment Advisor June 2009 Vaughan Scully |
ETF Advisor: ETFs for Cash Over the past year, ETFs holding money market securities -- Treasury, municipal, and corporate bonds that mature in less than a year -- have sprung up to give investors a "cash-equivalent" ETF option.  |
The Motley Fool June 3, 2005 Roy Lewis |
Tax Rules for Selling Mutual Funds What do you do when it's time to sell?  |
The Motley Fool October 22, 2009 Selena Maranjian |
Why Pay Taxes When You Don't Have to? Park your dividends in your Roth IRA and save a lot more money.  |
The Motley Fool May 24, 2011 Jason Moser |
It Pays to Know How Your Money Is Managed A recap of Robert Pozen's new book, The Fund Industry: How Your Money is Managed.  |
Financial Advisor September 2005 Marla Brill |
The Case For Municipal Bonds Improving municipal bond yields could ease investor fear of rising interest rates.  |
The Motley Fool April 5, 2005 |
Behold the Turnover Ratio Turnover ratios can tell you a lot about your mutual funds.  |
Registered Rep. May 18, 2004 John Churchill |
The Only Game in Town Survey shows a majority of investors still think mutual funds provide the best opportunity for a diversified portfolio, and many do not think the mutual fund improprieties are widespread across the industry.  |
BusinessWeek December 20, 2004 Anne Tergesen |
Funds: Going The Hybrid Route Mutual funds that ape hedge-fund tactics can help you profit from a tepid market. Unfortunately, some hybrid funds with strong track records are closed to new investments. Still, some good opportunities remain.  |
BusinessWeek June 10, 2010 |
Big Funds, Small Returns Most of the 10 biggest actively managed stock mutual funds are in the red this year.  |
Financial Advisor April 2010 Marla Brill |
A Good Complement More advisors think both bond mutual funds and ETFs belong in client portfolios.  |
The Motley Fool December 29, 2010 Morgan Housel |
More Premature Reports of the Death of the Individual Investor Investors have been pulling money out of stock mutual funds. But this is an incomplete way of looking at things, and not nearly enough to conclude that we've lost our love of investing.  |
Financial Advisor July 2004 Gail Liberman |
Muni Bond Funds Vs. Individual Bonds A new study says the funds are cheaper if you actively trade.  |
The Motley Fool August 27, 2010 Mac Greer |
Can Mutual Funds Prevent the Next Financial Meltdown? Economics professor Lawrence Kotlikoff thinks limited purpose banking is the key to real change.  |
BusinessWeek January 20, 2011 William Selway |
Muni Bonds: Default Fears May Be Overblown As investors flee, some analysts say predictions of widespread defaults, spurred by big state deficits and lost tax revenues, are lacking in evidence.  |
Financial Planning October 1, 2010 Donald Jay Korn |
A Bigger Slice Of all the challenges that the fund industry has faced and still faces, a stagnant stock market may be the most serious.  |
Registered Rep. October 1, 2006 John Churchill |
Investing on Faith Fees and performance may be at the top of the list of mutual fund characteristics investors look for, but don't count out faith.  |
Investment Advisor October 2009 |
The Soapbox: What You Need to Know About Hedge Fund Conversions Not all hedge funds can be seamlessly converted into mutual funds.  |
The Motley Fool August 24, 2007 Mac Greer |
Fool Video: Making the Most of Your Mutual Fund Stock analyst Shannon Zimmerman discusses how to manage your mutual fund in uncertain times.  |
The Motley Fool October 11, 2006 |
On Funds and Meetings If you hold shares through a mutual fund, can you attend annual company meetings?  |
The Motley Fool August 24, 2010 Morgan Housel |
Ignore Reports of the Death of the Individual Investor Investors are still in the game. They've just shifted tactics.  |
Registered Rep. July 1, 2005 Stan Luxenberg |
Killing It Softly Under departing Chairman William Donaldson, one of the SEC's most decisive actions received little attention; it recently eliminated a class of investments: stable value mutual funds.  |
Financial Planning November 1, 2009 Craig L. Israelsen |
Best and Worst of Bonds Investors often forget that different types of bonds, like stocks, can provide wildly different returns. This was never truer than in 2008.  |
The Motley Fool January 13, 2011 June Walbert |
Ask June: Purchasing a Home While in the Military The author offers advice to military personnel on home buying.  |
Registered Rep. June 11, 2014 Stan Luxenberg |
Bargains in Closed-End Funds? According to Thomas J. Herzfeld Advisors, the average closed-end bond fund now sells at a 6% discount to the value of its assets. You can buy $1 worth of bonds for 94 cents.  |
On Wall Street June 1, 2009 Craig Israelsen |
Variable Products, Variable Results The question is: Do the higher costs of variable products cause them to systematically underperform mutual funds?  |