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ETF stands for Exchange Traded Funds — these are funds that trade on the stock exchange just like any stock. And you follow the same procedure at your online broker to buy an ETF as you would any stock like IBM or GE. It should cost you between $4 and $10 per trade. ETFs are [...]
Investing for beginners, as well as those more financially savvy, can oftentimes be a daunting task as there are many investment choices and unfortunately many schemes making promises that can’t be kept. As recently exposed in an article in InvestorsInsight.com ‘Record Year For Ponzi Schemes’ investors are oftentimes lured in by investment schemes that are just ‘too good to be true’. “It’s [...]
Asset Allocation is being mistaken form tactical allocation. “It’s the financial fantasy for a post-crash world: Wouldn’t life be grand if you could own one mutual fund that invested in domestic and foreign stocks, bonds, cash, real estate, commodities and currencies, freely shifting investments among categories to take advantage of opportunities, and avoid meltdowns?” Well, [...]
A recent New York Times article ‘For Financial Advice, Arriving at the Right Dosage’ is an informative piece describing various options for getting low cost financial advice from an investment advisor. It’s one of the best, most comprehensive and well-balanced articles of its kind. ”Most everyone needs financial advice. The big question is how much. Wealthy families rely [...]
There appears to be momentum gaining behind retirement portfolios adding exchange traded funds (ETFs) to their investing mix. As discussed in a recent article ETFs Make Inroads With 401(k) Investors, low cost ETFs are slowly making their way into many 401(k) plans. ”ETFs’ appeal is that they offer investors low costs and extra flexibility. Unlike open-end [...]
A recent article ‘Burned Investors Watch Money Closely in ’09′ revealed how many investors turned to investment software in 2009 as “many became more hands-on with their money and open to alternatives that go beyond traditional stock plays”. Thanks to a host of powerful online tools, burned investors turned away from their traditional financial management professionals and [...]
With a low cost structure, transparency and tax efficiencies all gained from owning exchange traded funds and with more than 900 ETFs to choose from to build a diversified ETF portfolio, now more that ever it’s time to get started. If you are still not comfortable investing all your assets in ETF’s, then just get started with [...]
These last two weeks I have read many articles and blogs that reference the last decade as being disastrous for most investors, yet was pleased to read how owners of Vanguard Funds, particularly Vanguard Index Funds, fared quite well. Rick Ferri of Portfolio Solutions recently showed in a Forbes article “A Decent Decade for Index Investors” the [...]
Sam Mamudi of the Wall Street Journal deservingly poked money managers in the eye with his recent report on how such mangers underperformed indexes in both real and risk adjusted returns as revealed by a rigorous Morningstar study on the subject. As Mamundi states, “While it has been established that most actively managed mutual funds [...]
Be certain to read the fine print when signing up to purchase mutual funds as Wall Street scams never fail to surprize me. A recent MSN money article ‘Is Your Mutual Fund Worth Its Fees’ reveals a shocking truth – many active money managers are simply “closet indexers” — wow, actively managed index mutual funds. These managers charge a [...]
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