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Portfolio Turnover: Should You Care?

One of the mantras of mutual fund investing is to look at a fund’s turnover before you buy it. The implication is that a high turnover is bad. (Turnover is the percentage of a funds holdings that are traded during a year. Funds can have a turnover greater than 100%, which means […]

What Are SRI Funds?

SRI is an acronym for Socially Responsible Investing. According to one source over $2 trillion of money managed professionally is currently being invested according to some type of “social criteria”. There are now hundreds of different mutual funds utilizing social screens to select investments. By definition SRI funds try to integrate social and environmental objectives, […]

How Mutual Funds Work

Mutual funds are good options for American investors to meet their financial goals. These funds offer professional management and diversification of the funds invested. Mutual funds assets in 1990-2000 rose from 1.065 trillion to a whooping 6.965 trillion dollars. 10% Americans owned funds in 1980 and by 2000, the percentage increased to 49%.
What […]

Mutual Funds-One Of The Financial World’s Most Popular Investment Vehicles

Mutual funds are one of the financial world’s most popular investment vehicles, and for good reason.
For a relatively small investment, these funds give individual investors the ability to buy a diverse portfolio of stocks and / or other financial instruments - all in one transaction.
If you have just two or more mutual funds, […]

The Roth IRA - A True Highlight of the “Ownership Society”

Since its inception in 1998, the Roth IRA, (”Roth” for its legislative sponsor, the late Senator William Roth, and “IRA” for individual retirement account), has been one of the most popular retirement vehicles in the United States.
The Roth IRA is particularly useful for hands-on investors and the self-employed, but almost everyone can benefit from […]

What is a Mutual Fund?

A Mutual Fund can be termed as a form of a collective investment that collects money from many investors and invests the money into stocks, bonds, short-term money market instruments, and / or other securities.
In this type fund, the fund manager trades the fund’s underlying securities, realizing their capital gains or loss, and collects […]

Understanding The Concept Of An IRA

An IRA is an Individual Retirement Account, which provides either a tax-deferred or a tax-free way of saving for future retirement. There are many varied forms of accounts within the world. Depending on the superb financial goals and situations of each individual, though maybe Long-established IRA and Roth IRA are the more familiar choices.
An Individual […]