This article reviews Fidelity’s Freedom Funds and Vanguard’s Target Retirement Funds. These funds represent an easy way to diversify your investments in a single mutual fund.
Warren Buffett was recently interviewed on everything from who he supports for President, to the future of the dollar, and the banking crisis. The interview presents an interesting glimpse into how Warren Buffett sees the current financial landscape. Some of the key points for investors:
The dollar will continue to fall: So long [...]
Last week the SEC issued a notice that gave near final approval to Invesco Ltd.’s PowerShares Capital Management unit to issue actively managed ETFs. You can read the SEC release (pdf file), but here are the details and how it changes the investing landscape.
Actively Managed ETFs
Just to review, an ETF today tracks an index, [...]
Last month my wife and I decided to donate 50% of all income from this site to charity. We chose Common Hope to receive these donations, an organization in Guatemala dedicated to the education of Guatemala’s children. I’m happy to report that in January 2008, DR received $846 in revenue, resulting in a [...]
Dodge & Cox announced last week that it will open its Dodge & Cox Stock Fund (DODGX) and Dodge & Cox Balanced Fund (DODBX) to new investors beginning today, Monday, February 4, 2008. Both funds were closed in 2004 to new investors, although existing investors were permitted to continue investing in the funds. [...]
. . .but it sure is fun. Congratulations go out to Mike, Cynthia and Jack (check your email), who won the 3 book giveaway. Using a random number generator, I used three random numbers to select the winners from the email entries. Each winner will be receiving copies of the following three [...]
As you may know, I’ve decided to invest roughly 50% of the earnings from The Dough Roller in B shares of Berkshire Hathaway. (The other half goes to charity.) I say roughly half goes to the B share because a small portion of the 50% I keep goes to loans on Prosper and [...]
This is a guest post from author Richard A. Ferri, CFA. If you’d like to write for TDR, please drop me a line. Also remember to enter our contest to win three of Rick’s books, including a hardcover copy of The ETF Book. Get the details here.
Should investors buy ETFs or mutual [...]
World markets plunged yesterday. Just to recap:
Britain’s benchmark FTSE-100: -5.5%
France’s CAC-40 Index: -6.8%
Germany’s blue-chip DAX 30: -7.2%
India’s benchmark stock index: -7.4%
Hong Kong’s Hang Seng index: -5.5%
Canada’s S&P/TSX composite index: -4.8%
Brazilian stocks: -6.6%
Argentina’s Merval index: -6.3%
About the only market not to decline was the U.S. markets, because [...]
