Mutual Fund Basics
What are mutual funds and what are some things you should know about them. Here are some basic answers. If you have a small amount of money to invest, or even more, you have probably considered investing in a mutual fund. Mutual funds have soared ... [... more]
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Mutual Funds For Canadians for Dummies
 Amazon.ca: Picking mutual funds isn't rocket science, but it is time consuming. In Mutual Funds for Canadians for Dummies, investment writer Andrew Bell takes the mystique out of it with his tongue-in-cheek approach and jargon-free English. "This [... more]
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The Great Mutual Fund Trap: An Investment Recovery Plan
From Amazon.com: If you've been burned on Wall Street (and who hasn't?) but still need a practical place to park your savings (who doesn't?), Gregory Baer and Gary Gensler have your number. While somewhat mistitled because it decries "active [... more]
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Common Sense on Mutual Funds: 3 CD's
From Amazon.com: Invoking the words and spirit of Thomas Paine, investor-turned-historian John Bogle concedes that his ideas for revamping the mutual-fund industry are perhaps "not yet sufficiently fashionable to procure them general favor." [... more]
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Morningstar Guide to Mutual Funds: 5-Star Strategies for ...
Seriously misleading: Morningstar has tremendous market power and reputation, and this book builds off that. But academic work, often published on the Internet and summarized at sites like ABetterWayToInvest, show that Morningstar ratings have no [... more]
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Bogle on Mutual Funds: New Perspectives for the ...
Sound advice on mutual funds: I read this book when it first came out ten years ago at the beginning of the bull market. At the time the book had mixed reviews. One of Bogle's warning, and probably the best advice, is to watch out for funds that charge [... more]
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Mutual Funds For Dummies
Must Read for everyone who wants to start investing in funds: Read this book if you want to start investing in mutual funds. This book goes through mutual funds in a way that everyone can understand. He also adds some good advice why to invest in funds [... more]
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So You Wanna Get Rich?: Index 500 Funds returned about ...
All of your friends have friends it seems that are making a "killing" in the stock market. Some of us that were 100% invested in "THE RIGHT" stocks and stock mutual funds throughout the '90's and have stayed invested have made 2, 3, 4 [... more]
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Metrics: The First Step to Improve Something is to ...
People don't know any better and get advice from someone who gets a commission to sell them a mutual fund. Last month the Dow Jones was at record highs and I warned that the stock market was not a place to make easy money. Since I wrote that, the ... [... more]
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First Investments: Getting Started
This article comes with the DOW, NASDAQ and S & P500; all at record highs. If you had bought an index mutual fund investing in the S & P500;, then that investment should be up 14.3% since January 1, 1997! The NASDAQ is up, by comparison, 7.6%. ... [... more]
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PRESERVATION OF CAPITAL
Why preservation of capital is important to a sound investment strategy and how to use a risk pyramid to achieve this goal. One needs to think twice before investing too much money into volatile stocks and mutual funds. We all want to own stocks ... [... more]
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Foreign Affairs
I am often asked "how do I find a stock or mutual fund on a foreign exchange?" One of my favorite sites is Yahoo Quotes > which is part Yahoo. Besides allowing for multiple portfolios, this site is great for looking up stocks in Canada as [... more]
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