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The Motley Fool September 3, 2008 Selena Maranjian |
This Fund Charges What? Pay attention to the expense ratios of your funds, or pay too much. |
The Motley Fool August 21, 2007 Nathan Alderman |
4 Keys to Easier Investing Mystified by mutual funds? Here's what to look for. Once you know these four key elements to seek out when judging a fund, you'll be ready to start your own search to build your perfect fund portfolio. |
The Motley Fool June 23, 2008 Dayana Yochim |
Even Billionaires Sweat the Small Stuff When it comes to managing your finances, you, too, should sweat the small stuff -- the seemingly minuscule things that actually have monumental effects on your bottom line. |
The Motley Fool August 24, 2007 Amanda B. Kish |
Fund Fees Under the Magnifying Glass Make sure you know how much you're paying for your fund. |
The Motley Fool April 19, 2004 Selena Maranjian |
Mutual Fund Fees Explained Ignore a fund's fees and your net worth may suffer. |
The Motley Fool October 20, 2009 Selena Maranjian |
Save Yourself $2,250 Beware of loaded mutual funds. |
The Motley Fool June 26, 2008 Adam J. Wiederman |
The Truth Behind Buffett's Big Bet The Oracle of Omaha bet against top hedge fund managers. Here's why. |
The Motley Fool September 18, 2007 Selena Maranjian |
Funds Are Getting Loaded There's an alarming new trend among mutual fund companies: They're phasing out many or all of their no-load mutual funds. Are these mutual fund worries reasonable or overblown? A little of both. |
The Motley Fool November 29, 2007 Adam J. Wiederman |
The Worst Investment Out There Take a look at Shepherd Large Cap Growth Fund, which year to date has impressively outperformed the market, but may have set itself up disastrously for the long term. |
The Motley Fool May 20, 2004 Selena Maranjian |
Alarming Mutual Funds Always consider a fund's total expense ratio because those hidden costs will eat away at your gains. |
The Motley Fool April 20, 2004 Shannon Zimmerman |
You're Paying How Much? With mutual funds, you usually get what you don't pay for. When it comes to gauging a fund's prospects, few attributes have more predictive power than the expense ratio. |
The Motley Fool January 18, 2005 Shannon Zimmerman |
You're Paying How Much? With mutual funds, you usually get what you don't pay for. |
The Motley Fool May 11, 2004 Selena Maranjian |
Good vs. Evil Mutual Funds In the battle of good and evil, evil is winning. |
The Motley Fool August 31, 2007 Selena Maranjian |
A Free Enterprise Fund For certain conservatives, the Free Enterprise Action fund might be appealing. |
The Motley Fool July 20, 2007 Selena Maranjian |
A Few Well-Regarded Funds Reopen Should you buy in? Tweedy Browne Value... Fidelity New Millennium... |
The Motley Fool June 20, 2008 Selena Maranjian |
Make Money Despite Higher Fees A low fee isn't everything. |
The Motley Fool June 27, 2007 Amanda B. Kish |
The 5-Minute Fund Test Follow these easy steps to find worthy mutual funds. |
The Motley Fool January 4, 2010 Selena Maranjian |
Say Goodbye to Class-B Mutual Funds Class B never served you well. Now they don't serve Wall Street, either. |
The Motley Fool March 10, 2009 Selena Maranjian |
Which Funds Are Reining In Executive Compensation? Here are some of the mutual funds rated highest for their activism on executive compensation, along with some of their recent top holdings. |
The Motley Fool October 15, 2007 Dan Caplinger |
Put $174,000 Back in Your Pocket You're paying too much for mutual funds. When it comes to investing, every dollar counts. Yet too many investors are throwing money away unnecessarily. |
The Motley Fool July 3, 2008 Brian Richards |
The Worst Investment I've Ever Seen Many people do not realize that mutual fund fees are important for making an index fund investment decision. Secondly, even investors who realize fees are important do not minimize index fund fees. |
The Motley Fool April 7, 2009 Selena Maranjian |
A Surprising Trait of Outperforming Funds When you study a fund, you might want to pay attention to the aspects of the fund that the researchers found matter the most: the quality of the board of directors, and its fees. |
The Motley Fool February 1, 2008 Selena Maranjian |
Funds for a Pittance There are no more excuses. You don't need lots of money to start investing in mutual funds. Read on for two recommendations. |
The Motley Fool March 18, 2004 |
Picking the Best Mutual Fund Past performance is what other investors earned. Current expenses are what you'll pay. |
On Wall Street June 1, 2011 Tom Roseen |
Performance Drags: A Curse To Wealth Accumulation Loads, expenses and taxes can have a significant impact on fund returns over the long haul. |
On Wall Street August 1, 2012 Sasha Franger |
An Easier Way to Track Mutual Funds' Expense Ratio Each year Lipper produces its "Quick Guide to Fund Expenses." The report consists of a single table displaying the asset-weighted average and average total expense ratios by load-type, fund type, and Lipper classifications/objectives. |
BusinessWeek May 28, 2007 Lauren Young |
In A Big World, Few Open Doors Global investing is hot, and finding a good foreign mutual fund is tough. Of the 16 diversified funds rated "A" in the foreign category, only these five are still open to new investors. |
The Motley Fool January 27, 2010 Selena Maranjian |
The Worst Fund Ever Finally Dies What we can learn from the all-time greatest mutual fund stinker. |
Investment Advisor July 2010 Vaughan Scully |
The ETF Advisor: Technology ETFs Ride the iPhone's Wave The runaway success of Apple's iPhone, and Research in Motion's Blackberry before it, is driving a shift throughout the information technology sector that will likely be felt for years to come. |
The Motley Fool March 29, 2010 Jordan DiPietro |
Don't Say You Weren't Warned Avoid actively managed mutual funds and invest in individual stocks instead. |
The Motley Fool May 12, 2005 Selena Maranjian |
Something Smells in Mutual Fund Land One good strategy for mutual fund investors, given the state of expense fees these days, is to make sure you're investing in top-notch funds. Anything less will mean that the fees eat up a greater percentage of the total return. |
The Motley Fool March 2, 2009 John Rosevear |
Put This Overlooked Gem in Your IRA Now This below-the-radar fund is worth a closer look. The Aston/River Road Dividend All Cap Value Fund may not have the fund industry's most elegant name, but this Morningstar five-star fund has a lot of positives. |
The Motley Fool January 9, 2007 Selena Maranjian |
Hey -- My Fund Just Crashed! Try not to panic; there just might be a logical explanation. Fund prices are adjusted downward to account for distributions. |
The Motley Fool February 19, 2009 Dan Caplinger |
The Only Way to Stop Losing Money By taking charge of investing your own large portfolio, you can save a bundle in fees. |
The Motley Fool April 9, 2008 Selena Maranjian |
Why I Was Wrong, and Then Wrong Again Don't get all excited about a mutual fund based on its performance in a single year. |
The Motley Fool November 14, 2011 Rebecca Lipman |
Options Market Picks: 9 Highly Liquid Stocks With Bullish Options Sentiment Options traders are bullish on these highly liquid names -- do you agree? |
The Motley Fool January 28, 2009 Adam J. Wiederman |
2 Smart Ways to Lose Money If you're gonna do it, might as well do it smart. |
AskMen.com Luis Rodrigues |
Mutual funds With interest rates remaining as low as they are, more and more people are looking towards the stock market to earn a higher return on their money investing. |
The Motley Fool August 26, 2004 Robert Brokamp |
My Fund Manager Ate My Retirement! How much of your investment is consumed by your mutual fund's expenses? |
The Motley Fool June 9, 2009 Selena Maranjian |
When Cash Is Bad for Funds While we're sitting smack in the middle of a great big opportunity, some mutual funds are still sitting on a lot of cash -- rather than deploying it. |
The Motley Fool November 11, 2009 Dan Caplinger |
This Awful Investment Should Just Die One market commentator has suggested that the Investor Protection Act could force brokers to stop selling a particular class of mutual funds, those known as "C" shares. |
The Motley Fool June 30, 2008 Selena Maranjian |
Your Mutual Fund's Hidden Costs When sizing up funds, put expense ratios in context. |
The Motley Fool June 25, 2008 Selena Maranjian |
Pay Attention to Turnover If you're thinking of buying some of a mutual fund's top holdings as individual stocks for your portfolio, be careful. |
The Motley Fool February 20, 2007 Emil Lee |
PHLY's Blowout Quarter: Fool by Numbers Philadelphia Consolidated Holdings released fourth-quarter 2006 earnings: Income Statement Highlights... Ratio Checkup... Balance Sheet Highlights... |
The Motley Fool February 18, 2004 Robert Brokamp |
The Fund Fees You Don't See A study shows that almost half of shareholder costs are undisclosed or nearly impossible to find. While the recent mutual fund scandals raise serious questions about whom we should trust with our money, the actual dollar cost to most individual investors isn't that high. There are far more significant ways funds siphon off our dollars. And they're just as hidden. |
The Motley Fool October 30, 2009 Selena Maranjian |
Big Gains and Minimal Taxes Many fund investors will enjoy a silver lining come tax time. |
Registered Rep. December 1, 2006 |
Correction The expense ratios of the lifecycle funds cited in "Spinning Their Wheels" (October 2006) represented gross expense ratios and not the net expense ratios that are normally used when examining fund fees. |
The Motley Fool May 29, 2007 Amanda B. Kish |
The World's Most Expensive Mutual Fund Frontier Micro Cap fund takes the cake for sky-high expenses with an eye-popping 18.4% expense ratio. |
The Motley Fool July 7, 2010 Selena Maranjian |
Profit From the Best Employers Companies with the happiest employees might also please investors. One innovative mutual fund chooses its holdings entirely with companies that treat their employees like gold. |
The Motley Fool March 15, 2011 Esterhuizen & Sellitti |
Dividend Safety: High Yield Stocks With Enough Cash to Cover Several Quarters of Expenses Are these companies cushioned with cash? |