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How to Buy Mutual Funds and Build Lasting Wealth
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Dimensional Fund Advisors -- DFA -- Worth the Fees?
Dimensional Fund Advisors are a group of advisors who, for a fee, will help the individual investor get access to select mutual funds offered by Dimensional. These mutual funds have been designed using plenty of academic research applied to the stock market, and so far the results have been quite impressive. The funds try to not be constrained by simply classifying themselves as value or growth, and also try to avoid emotional retail investor . . . read more >>
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Best Mutual Funds for Investing in Russia
BRIC economies have been attracting investors and mutual funds alike from world over, and returning impressive gains to conservative investors. Russia is one such country with a broad, diversified economy and many profitable investment stories. Foreign investment is rising in a variety of areas including into companies that operate profitably . . . read more >>
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Investing in India IT Sector Bull Market
Investing in India IT Sector's bull market has already turned many individuals into millionaires and propelled many mutual fund managers into star status. This has been especially true for those who place their bets in the late 90s during the "Y2K scare" era and held on through the great outsourcing wave in the early part of this decade in the twenty-first century. Companies such as Infosys, Wipro, Satyam Computers . . . read more >>
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China Bull Market Run -- Time to Exit with Warren Buffett?
China has been having a multi-year bull market run with its index doubling in the last year, with many of its internet stocks as well as industrial and resource stocks seeing a spectacular rise. Warren Buffett, who had invested in PetroChina, recently exited this investment after it rose by a nice 300%, and offered a word of caution to other investors as well. Analysts of the China stock market are on both sides of this argument . . . read more >>
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Mutual Fund Entry and Exit Strategies for a Wealth Builder
No-load mutual funds have made entry into and exit out of mutual funds particularly easy, and relatively penalty-free. While a few funds charge a fee for early exit from a fund, most do not. Load funds place a penalty for purchase and/or sale of shares of the fund to discourage frequent trading of their funds' shares. Are there strategies one should adopt regarding entering or exiting a mutual fund . . . read more >>
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Sector Fund Investing -- When to Buy, Hold and Sell for Wealth
Mutual funds come in a variety of colors to facilitate investing by folks like us. Of these, sector fund investing offers us the ability to purchase shares in a particular area of the stock market -- whether it be real-estate, precious metals, pharmaceutical industry or the retail sector or any other industry one cares about. These funds charge a higher expense ratio because they are limited to a smaller universe of companies, and also because they have to manage your money responsibly . . . read more >>
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Best Mutual Fund Managers to Ride out Tough Markets
Investing in stock and bond markets is risky business -- this becomes clear each time the market swoons by 5%-10% or more in a very short time. Investors -- whether they are retail or professional or managers of mutual funds -- find their portfolios having been shaved significantly, and look for explanations where none can be found. However, the very best mutual fund managers . . . read more >>
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Best Way to Compare Mutual Funds
Mutual funds can be compared with each other in a variety of ways -- based on capitalization of the stocks they invest in (small-cap, large-cap, mid-cap), on their investment styles (growth, value, income), based on sectors (High-Tech, Retail, Banking), or region (Euro, US, International) . . . read more >>
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Load vs No Load Funds
Load funds have gotten the short end of the stick in their coverage in media over the last decade or so -- mainly because of the extra charge associated with the purchase or sale of shares of these funds. Moreover, studies have indicated that there is no performance benefit by going with load funds over no-load funds, and when accounting for the extra . . . read more >>
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Mutual Funds for Brazil -- A Wealth Builder's Asset Allocation Strategy
Brazil, as part of the coined term BRIC, is an emerging economy with a very bright and promising future. Investments in Brazil have rewarded those with a solid investment strategy, though it has caught others flat-footed when it has gone through its periodic swoons. Mutual funds for Brazil thus remain the preferred methodology to invest . . . read more >>
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