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Financial Planning September 1, 2013 Craig L. Israelsen |
Mutual Funds vs. ETFs: Which Performance Better? When a portfolio of mutual funds vies against a portfolio of ETFs, which one comes out on top? |
Financial Planning May 1, 2006 Donald Jay Korn |
Doling out the Bounty Financial planners have many more investment vehicles to choose from as mutual funds, SMAs and ETFs compete for their assets. While planners have their preferences, new kinds of accounts make it easier to devote some money to each. |
The Motley Fool July 30, 2007 Amanda B. Kish |
Old Mutual Spreads Its Wings It remains to be seen if Old Mutual's plans for growth will make this firm's funds worth owning, but one fund, Old Mutual Focused Fund, is already worth a look. |
The Motley Fool September 28, 2007 Amanda B. Kish |
The Key to Successful Mutual Fund Investing Mutual fund expenses may be one of the best ways to tell whether a fund will outperform or not. |
The Motley Fool November 5, 2007 Selena Maranjian |
Back Away From That Mutual Fund If you buy a mutual fund just before its capital gains tax distribution, you'll face taxes on an investment you didn't own for very long -- and in many cases, one you never owned. |
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? |
BusinessWeek November 21, 2005 Lauren Young |
Sizing Up Tailored Portfolios A study shows that investors in separately managed accounts like the results. |
The Motley Fool December 4, 2006 Dan Caplinger |
10 Trillion Reasons to Invest Mutual funds keep raking in the money. |
The Motley Fool September 11, 2008 Zoe Van Schyndel |
Do Fund Ratings Matter? Learn how to pick a winning fund. |
Financial Planning October 1, 2008 April Recksiek |
Index Battle Investors who want to build an index-based portfolio have two viable mechanisms: index-based mutual funds and exchange-traded funds (ETFs). |
Registered Rep. December 1, 2005 Stan Luxenberg |
Some Mutual Funds Win in Tax Game It's true, on average, that exchange-traded funds and separate accounts have tax advantages over mutual funds. But advisors shouldn't dismiss mutual funds too quickly. |
Registered Rep. March 30, 2006 John Churchill |
Mutual Fund Performance Overstated, Says Study Actively managed mutual funds have done worse than is generally thought. Those, at least, are the findings of a study released yesterday covering a ten-year period of performance figures reported by Morningstar. |
Entrepreneur March 2004 Scott Bernard Nelson |
Do It Your Way Tailor your portfolio with separately managed accounts. |
Financial Planning August 1, 2010 Israelsen & Lindsley |
Pay to Play? The minimum initial investment of a mutual fund represents the first pay-to-play hurdle for potential investors. |
BusinessWeek June 26, 2006 Lauren Young |
Mutual Funds: Back In Action Sure, the markets are jittery, but mutual funds are doing a better job for investors since the dot-com smashup. Long-term returns are up, fees are down, and, despite ETFs and hedge funds, money is rolling in. |
Investment Advisor January 2006 Kathleen M. McBride |
Silk Purses Medal winning fund managers in 2005 drilled for returns and explored overseas. The best performing fund in any of S&P's categories for 2005 is the BlackRock Global Resources Portfolio/Institutional. |
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 June 14, 2011 Dan Caplinger |
Who Sneaked These High-Risk Stocks Into Your Portfolio? Although mutual funds don't have to disclose their holdings all that often, most do on a quarterly basis -- so take a quick look and see what changes your fund managers have made. |
The Motley Fool January 7, 2004 |
Beating the Market Can an actively managed mutual fund consistently post market-beating returns? |
The Motley Fool April 21, 2005 |
Don't Buy the Dividend! There's a bad time to buy into mutual funds. |
On Wall Street September 1, 2008 Neil OHara |
SMAs: Overhyped or Underused? Separately managed accounts are often touted for their tax advantages. But some investors don't maximize that potential. |
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. |
Financial Planning October 1, 2006 Joshua M. Kaplan |
Out of Balance The mutual fund universe is quite expansive, with multitudes of funds that have reasonable initial investment minimums. By opting for a balanced fund, clients need to understand that they are relinquishing control of their allocation. |
Investment Advisor August 2010 Marlene Y. Satter |
Morningstar to Rate 529 Plans Morningstar, which has researched 529 plans for years, is now adding a qualitative rating system for the plans, and quantitative ratings on 529 options within the plans. |
The Motley Fool May 11, 2009 Dan Caplinger |
Don't Buy This New Investment Wait to see how active ETFs do before you jump in. |
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. |
Financial Planning August 1, 2006 Elizabeth O'Brien |
Adviser Pulse: Funds, Funds, Funds In 1992, advisers had 3,261 mutual funds to choose from. Today there are 16,580. Here's what financial advisers need to consider when choosing an asset manager. |
Financial Planning January 1, 2005 Donald Jay Korn |
Another Ride Are advisers and their clients really ready to get on the technology fund roller coaster again? |
Entrepreneur August 2006 Jennifer Pellett |
Safe Bet? What's new in the mutual fund market. |
Wall Street & Technology October 27, 2005 Eugene Gilerson |
Mutual Funds Wake-Up Call The developing new market landscape has made it clear that mutual fund families will have to take decisive technological actions to keep their share of the market and sustain profitability. |
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. |
The Motley Fool April 28, 2005 |
Your 60-Second ETF Education When you need a little something for your portfolio, consider an exchange-traded mutual fund (ETF). |
Investment Advisor April 2007 Robert F. Keane |
Morningstar--S&P Deal Morningstar and Standard and Poor's, a division of The McGraw-Hill Companies, announced the completion of a deal for Morningstar to acquire Standard and Poor's mutual fund data business for $55 million in cash. |
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 April 4, 2007 Amanda B. Kish |
Finding Needles in Funds' Haystack 7,000 reasons to separate good funds from bad ones. Too often, investors look first for funds with the highest recent returns, then perform due diligence only on funds at the top of that list. |
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 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. |
The Motley Fool July 31, 2007 Amanda B. Kish |
Hooray for Cheaper Funds! The fund industry just got the memo: Expenses matter. How do your fund's expenses measure up? The following chart details the average expense ratio for several different categories of funds. |
HBS Working Knowledge December 15, 2003 |
Readers Respond: Is This the Twilight Era for the Managed Mutual Fund? Business leaders and managers who can't recognize public and investor trust as a fundamental requirement of their business should be fired or barred for life... As soon as I can beat the market on my own, I'm out of mutual funds... etc. |
The Motley Fool February 28, 2005 |
Understanding "Window Dressing" Some mutual funds are pulling the wool over your eyes. |
The Motley Fool June 8, 2004 Shannon Zimmerman |
The Case for Mutual Funds Our resident fund jockey takes on all doubters. Are mutual funds a good investment, or just a way to underperform? |
BusinessWeek January 23, 2006 Lauren Young |
How Do Your Picks Compare? How to customize the Mutual Fund Scoreboard to sort by what's most important to you. |
The Motley Fool April 13, 2007 Amanda B. Kish |
The Perfect Mutual Fund Portfolio Owning fewer funds just makes sense. But now the question remains -- exactly how many funds do you need to adequately diversify your portfolio? |
Entrepreneur April 2007 Scott Bernard Nelson |
Shed Light Are hedge funds leaving you in the dark? Morningstar's extensive database might be a good place to start your research. |
The Motley Fool June 27, 2007 Amanda B. Kish |
The 5-Minute Fund Test Follow these easy steps to find worthy mutual funds. |
HBS Working Knowledge December 8, 2003 |
Readers Respond: Is This the Twilight Era for the Managed Mutual Fund? I am skeptical of the ability of fund managers to consistently beat the market... I believe that we have probably seen the beginning of the decline of the actively managed mutual fund... The mutual fund scandal will shift public trust towards index funds... etc. |
The Motley Fool September 9, 2011 Amanda B. Kish |
How to Make Money With Mutual Funds A lowdown on mutual funds. |
The Motley Fool December 3, 2008 Dan Caplinger |
The Year-End Mistake You Don't Want to Make If you prefer to use mutual funds rather than individual stocks to invest, there's one expensive tax mistake that you'll want to be sure to avoid. |
The Motley Fool October 27, 2006 Dan Caplinger |
ETFs Can Be Taxing Watch out for tax pitfalls when investing in exchange-traded funds. |
The Motley Fool March 24, 2005 Nathan Slaughter |
Mutual Fund Meltdown Have you assembled your funds in a carefully orchestrated portfolio or in a haphazard collection? Collecting mutual funds is not a safe pastime. It's a financial disaster waiting to happen. |