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Have You Filled Your Mutual Fund Form Yet?
Before making any mutual fund investment, the investor has to fill a form which clearly indicates his personal details such as name, address, number of units applied for and any other form of information which is required.
Make Smarter Stock Investment Moves During Recession
The slump in the economy puts direct impact on the stock market. The stock investment planning & strategies of several investors fails when the market goes down. What ideally should be done in such situations that fades away the hope of earning profits & brings a sense of fear for incurring losses?
Best No Load Mutual Funds: The Right Way to Look at Fees and Expenses
Metrics such as price/earnings ratio and dividend yield on the S&P 500 index, a commonly used proxy for the U.S. stock market, are hardly at bargain levels. This has lead several market pundits to predict single digit annual returns for domestic mutual funds over the next decade.
Morningstar Mutual Funds Fiduciary Grades: What Investors Need to Know
Mutual fund investors use Morningstar RatingTM as a sign post of mutual fund performance. These ratings have proved to be a valuable tool for objectively comparing the performances of different mutual funds.
A New Wall Street Line Dance
Every December, with visions of sugarplums dancing in their heads, investors begin to scrutinize their performance, formulate coulda's and shoulda's, and determine what to try next year. It's an annual, masochistic, right of passage.
How To Dissect Mutual Fund Returns
While total and compound annual returns are useful, savvy investors will look deeper, using a variety of metrics, to get a more complete picture on mutual fund performance.
The Case for Value Stock Investing...What If?
Predicting the performance of individual issues is a totally different ball game that requires an even more powerful crystal ball and a whole array of completely illegal relationships. No one can predict individual issue price movements legally, consistently, or in a timely manner.
Investing In The Stock Market
This atricle outlines a viable approach to investing in the Stock Market for the individual.
Constructing an All-Weather Mutual Fund Portfolio
While screening tools readily provide performance data and make the task of identifying top mutual funds relatively easy, there is more to constructing an all-weather portfolio than screening for the top funds.
What Is a Stock Split?
Why do companies split their stock? What is a reverse split?
Investing in the Stock Market for the Individaul Investor
Understand how the markets work. History of the stock market. Why do companies sell stock? What's the difference between a "Bull Market" and a "Bear Market"? What is the role of a stock broker?
Penny Stock Investing and Trading
Being a penny stock investor takes time and a significant amount of knowledge to be considered competent in the marketplace.
Penny Stock Fraud Nets Millions
It was a fraud scheme involving penny stocks, but the scheme's mastermind ended up making millions of dollars from unsuspecting investors around the country.
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