The Truth about Mutual Funds: Fees Vs. Returns

Jan 18, 12 The Truth about Mutual Funds: Fees Vs. Returns

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There’s a lot frustration and disappointment with mutual funds. For many retail investors, it feels like mutual funds have been a huge let down and haven’t delivered returns. This has resulted in a great number of investors questioning the value of having their money professionally managed. Here, we take a deeper look at...

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3 Ways the Media is Dangerous to Your Financial Health

Jan 04, 12 3 Ways the Media is Dangerous to Your Financial Health

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It’s far too often that the financial media leads individual investors down the wrong path. They encourage us to to think in ways that are very dangerous to our financial health. There are three ways that are particularly dangerous: 1. Encouraging Investors to Think Short-Term They do this in a couple of different ways. First,...

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No Value in “Value” Mutual Funds

Oct 28, 11 No Value in “Value” Mutual Funds

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With investors exiting mutual funds en masse ($15.3Bn was withdrawn from U.S. stock mutual funds in September), we wanted to dig deeper. On the surface, the sudden retreat of investors can be explained through the growing pessimism of global macro-economic conditions. But, are they leaving perfectly good mutual funds? Investors...

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It Literally Pays to Ignore the Analysts

Sep 29, 11 It Literally Pays to Ignore the Analysts

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It happens too often. The herd mentality grips Wall St. as investors follow stock analysts like lemmings off a cliff. The only difference is that the analysts profit from your untimely end. For small investors it quite literally, pays to ignore them. We’re going to show you that there’s a certain mythology around stock analysts....

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