Investing

Do You Follow the 50-50 Rule of Mutual Fund Investing?

November 29, 2008

Picking mutual funds to entrust your hard earned cash can often feel like a crap shoot. The experts tell us not to look at past results, but let’s be honest, it’s the first thing most of us look at. And if past results are not an indicator of future performance, why are past results plastered [...]

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Mutual Fund Investing That Costs Nothing, Nada, Zip (Free!)

November 20, 2008

What do Home Depot, Anheuser Busch, and Carmax have in common? Here’s a hint: Bank of America, American Express, and General Electric have the same thing in common. The answer is they are all investments by a “mutual fund” that does not charge you a load fee or annual expenses. You’ve no doubt heard of [...]

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How to Profit from a Stock Market Crash

October 25, 2008

According to Standard and Poor’s, the S&P 500 is down 40.29% for the year. And just in case you thought that was a typo, I’ll repeat myself: the S&P 500 is down forty point twenty-nine percent so far in 2008. Ouch! Now here is something that is far more important. How you handle your stock [...]

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How to Invest in a Mutual Fund

August 19, 2008

You’ve decided to invest in your future. You’ve picked the perfect mutual fund. You’re ready to go. Now what? How do you actually go about buying shares of a mutual fund? The good news is that buying shares of a mutual fund is quick and easy. If you’ve never invested in a mutual fund outside [...]

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Don’t Confuse Popular with Profitable

August 13, 2008

Whether it comes to investing, making money blogging, or just about anything else in life, popularity can come with a hefty price tag. With investing, following the crowd is a surefire way to lose a lot of money as you repeatedly sell low and buy high out of fear of market losses. With blogging, sometimes [...]

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7 Myths About S&P 500 Index Funds

August 3, 2008

The S&P 500 Index is arguably the best known and most followed index of publicly traded companies. There are hundreds of S&P 500 index funds and exchange traded funds to chose from if you want an investment that tracks the S&P 500 Index. Since they all track the same index, these mutual funds and ETFs [...]

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My Investments and Online Income (June 2008)

July 8, 2008

June 2008 was a difficult month for the stock market. Along with the market, my investments were down significantly. For the year my investment portfolio is down about 10%. On the bright side, my online income held steady. Here are all the details of both my investments and online income.

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Do you change your investment strategy in a falling market?

July 7, 2008

I read with dismay the following from an “investment professional” in yesterday’s Washington Post: Now is not the time to drink the “buy and hold” investment strategy Kool-Aid. Be conservative, limit your risk–and sleep well knowing your investment principal is not going to continue to decline. The comment was in response to the following hypothetical [...]

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Vanguard Total World Stock Index Fund (VTWSX)

July 1, 2008

Vanguard recently launched an index mutual fund designed to track the performance of the FTSE All-World Index, a benchmark of approximately 2,900 stocks in 47 countries. With the introduction of Vanguard’s Total World Stock Index Fund (VTWSX), investors can now mimic the world market in a single fund. Much like the convenience of target date [...]

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