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• Book Review: The Complete Guide To Investing In Index Funds By Craig W. Baird

  
  BASIL & SPICE--FINANCIAL WELL BEING — Authority: 129
  Review By Lynette Fleming Let’s say you inherited or won $100,000.00 in the lottery. You might be inclined to invest the money in the stock market, in the hope that you could turn your $100,000 into $1,000,000 or maybe even more.  Some people, money in pocket, would go straight to their local stockbroker--in ...
  2 days ago

• Should Target Date Funds Be Standardized?

  
  Consumerism Commentary: A Personal Finance Blog Since 2003 — Authority: 636
  The Security and Exchange Commission (SEC) is setting up a new division to oversee new financial products, and this group is starting with target date funds . These are mutual funds usually taking the form of baskets of other mutual funds, designed to target a certain year of retirement. As the year approaches, the ...
  1 week ago

• Does Vanguard Feel Threatened By Tactical Asset Strategies?

  
  market folly — Authority: 621
  Thanks to a reader for bringing this back to our attention. Today we want to highlight an intriguing research piece from back in 2006 from index-fund giant Vanguard. Back then, they put out an interesting white paper on evaluating tactical strategies entitled, "A Primer on Tactical Asset Allocation." The fact that ...
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• Just How Safe is Your Money Right Now?

  
  Rich Credit Debt Loan — Authority: 556
  Even after the government took the opportunity to step in and bail out one of our largest insurance companies, the stock market still managed to find a way to completely tank, because many investors were not persuaded that this intervention was going to protect their investments. This is when you have to find ...
  2 weeks ago

• Blaming Retail Investors for Commodity Prices

  
  The Reformed Broker — Authority: 636
  “Commodity index rolls have little futures price impact, and inflows and outflows from commodity index investment do not cause futures prices to change” I haven’t come out strongly on either side of this issue because my job presents me with a dilemma. On the one hand, I believe that individual investors ...
  2 weeks ago

• Bill Miller vs. the S&P 500 Index

  
  AllFinancialMatters — Authority: 631
  If I were to ask you which one performed better since 1986, would you tell me Bill Miller-managed Legg Mason Value Trust or the S&P 500 Index, which one would you pick? If you picked Value Trust you’d be… WRONG! Much was made about the end of Bill Miller’s 15-year streak of beating the S&P 500 Index a ...
  2 weeks ago

• IFICs 36 point-of-sale recommendations for mutual funds; why are they still just talking about this?

  
  The Wealthy Boomer — Authority: 586
  Its ironic that as the Financial Post went to press with a weekend package focused on exchange-traded funds, the Investment Funds Institute of Canada released 36 industry recommendations to the Canadian Securities Administrators on implementing Point of Sale Disclosure for Mutual Funds. Heres one industry report on ...
  3 weeks ago

• Passive Wins With Risk Adjusted Returns

  
  Bizzia — Authority: 141
  A recent study completed by Morningstar showed that active management loses to passive management on a risk-adjusted basis. No surprise there. Many funds or managers may boast of high returns versus the market, but they forget to recognize one huge factor: RISK! Photo by stopnlook, courtesy of flickr ...
  3 weeks ago

• "I thought I wanted an ETF"

  
  The Wealthy Boomer — Authority: 586
  This weekends Financial Post contains a "package" of stories, some of which extoll the virtues of exchange-traded funds or ETFs. My own contribution was this column , which basically argued theres a place for both ETFs/index funds and actively managed funds, not to mention buying stocks or bonds directly. In it, I ...
  3 weeks ago

• Successful Investing-Not Magic

  
  Frugal Dad — Authority: 614
  This is a guest article by Ray, the owner and primary author of Financial Highway , where he discusses investing, saving and practical money management concepts. You can check subscribe to his RSS feed or follow him on Twitter . The past year and a half has been rough for investors, ...
  4 weeks ago

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