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ShareBuilder Starts to Offer ING Funds
2008-06-13 16:23:00 Original post on The Sun’s Financial Diary ShareBuilder Starts to Offer ING Funds ShareBuilder continues to make changes after being acquired by ING. ShareBuilder today announced that it now allows investors to buy mutual funds through it’s automatic investment plans. ShareBuilder is one of the popular discount brokers which offers investors to buy stocks at dollar amount rather ...
Mutual Fund Fallacies - Fund Managers Are Not Best
2008-06-08 18:45:00 http://www.GuaranteeMyMoney.com-. Learn why mutual fund managers CAN’t do their best for you. Hear an insider’s perspective on mutual funds and why they are not all they are cracked up to be. U.R. the Bank pays 8%, 9% or more. Fixed & guaranteed. Full Article
INVEST IN TAURUS LIBRA TAXSHIELD MUTUAL FUND
2008-06-06 16:02:00 By: BHARAT RATNA TAURUS LIBRA TAXSHIELD - GROWTH Scheme Objective Taurus libra tax shield fund aims at providing long term capital appreciation over the life of scheme by investing predominantly in equities. Taurus Libra Tax shield Growth Scheme la10 Vote(s)
By: Market Buzz
INVEST IN TAURUS LIBRA TAXSHIELD MUTUAL FUND
2008-06-06 15:20:00 By: BHARAT RATNA TAURUS LIBRA TAXSHIELD ? GROWTH Scheme Objective Taurus libra tax shield fund aims at providing long term capital appreciation over the life of scheme by investing predominantly in equities. Taurus Libra Tax shield Growth Scheme launched as open ended fund in March 31, 1996. It is a pure Growth scheme and seeks to provide capital growth by investing... Click on the Title to read more...
By: The India Street
How to build Mutual Fund (MF) portfolio? - AaryanWealthCreators
2008-06-05 20:54:00 Source : AaryanWealthCreators First we should choose the fund houses based on the performance in good times as well as bad times over a period of 5-10 year10 Vote(s)
By: Market Buzz
Mutual Fund Screener
2008-05-22 00:00:00 Here's a really interesting tool that Calvert Funds has set up to screen any mutual fund to make sure that it's adhering to socially responsible criteria, such as alcohol, Sudan, tobacco, weapons, workplace safety, etc. It's called "Know What You Own," and it's a fascinating tool to research mutual funds that are under the Socially Responsible Investing category.
UTI Mutual Fund IPO UTI MF IPO
2008-05-21 12:07:00 UTI Mutual Fund UTI MF is looking to launch its IPO again . Though nothing has been confirmed yet we can look forward to IPO Soon addthis_url =... Click on Headline to read full Article..
> NEW MUTUAL FUND PRODUCT WITH INSURANCE OF FINANCILA PLANNING
2008-05-21 10:40:00 DEAR ALL, PLEASE CHECK THE ATTACHMENT AND FOR ANY QUERY FEEL FREE TO MAIL ME MANISH MANTRI AHMEDABAD
REAL ESTATE MUTUAL FUND SCHEMES - Info - Part 1
2008-05-17 10:49:00 *REAL ESTATE MUTUAL FUND SCHEMES* For the benefit of our readers, we have reproduced key extracts from SEBI Mutual Funds Regulations Amendment Act,...
REAL ESTATE MUTUAL FUND SCHEMES - Info - Part 1
2008-05-17 10:46:00 *Valuation of real estates assets and declaration of net asset value* *49F.* 1. The real estate assets held by a real estate...
The latest on the fake mutual fund....
2008-05-15 02:36:00 I realized that I hadn't updated the 'mutual fund' that I was helping my FIL sort out and decided to do a quick recap on that little fiasco as well. Some of you might remember already but I'll recap quickly... My FIL came to visit 2 weeks ago and while he was here mentioned to me that perhaps I could help with something. Oh boy.... Sure enough, it's a doozy but then again it always is with
Still Helping my Fil with everything from that fake mutual fund to cellphon
2008-05-15 02:03:00 Of the many things I'm trying to help my 80 year old FIL with, I've managed to tackle a couple of them and I'm working on a couple more. Tonight I've been working on the cell phone issue. I actually didn't know that my FIL even had a cellphone until he was here visiting two weeks ago. He said something about having his cellphone with him and I said, "What? You have a cell phone? Why didn't
Oakmark, T. Rowe Price Reopen Funds
2008-05-13 16:13:00 Original post on The Sun’s Financial Diary The Oakmark Funds reopened its Global Fund (OAKGX) on May 9, 2008. The fund, which has been closed to new investors since December 2003, invests in both domestic and foreign markets, holding 42.6% of its assets in U.S. stocks and and the rest in developed and emerging economies outside ...
How Mutual Fund Sales Are Compensated In Canada
2008-05-11 07:28:00 In Canada, most mutual funds pay what are known as 'trailers' to firms and advisors. It is a cost that can be embedded in the MER (Management Expense Ratio) of a fund through the 'service fee'. While there are a handful of mutual funds that do not charge a service fee (and resulting trailers), most of them do. (Note that F-Class funds represent versions of mutual funds that have the trailers stripped out of them so that they can be held in special 'fee-based' accounts where the service fees are charged separately.)For the funds that do have service fees, there may be five different versions of the same fund: Front-End Load, Back-End Load, No-Load, the newer Low Load (sometimes referred to as Level Load as well), and finally the F-Class versions. Let's examine the differences by seeing how a representative sample fund can be sold under each option.The Representative Sample FundOur sample fund is a Canadian Equity mutual fund that has a management fee of 1.25% and 'other fees ...
Almighty Dolor
2008-05-10 16:36:00 Hedging the dollar with foreign-currency C.D.?s Your choices include single-currency C.D.?s ? euros, Canadian dollars, British pounds, even Brazilian reais or Indian rupees ? or multicurrency C.D.?s bundling predetermined baskets of denominations. For instance, the Viking Index C.D. is made up of Norwegian, Danish and Swedish currency. Other financial institutions offer ways to, in essence, bet ...
By: 1913 Intel
How Do You Benchmark a 130/30 Mutual Fund?
2008-05-05 00:04:00 Back in December I wrote about a type of mutual fund known as the 130/30 fund which I believe will be coming to Canada in the next few years. In a nutshell a 130/30 mutual fund allows a fund manager to not only go long the stocks he/she thinks will go up, but to also short the stocks that he/she thinks are over-priced. Every dollar invested goes into the long stocks and then the manager will short some stocks (equivalent to 30% of the money invested). When you short a stock (selling a stock you don't own), you still receive the sale proceeds. So now the manager has another 30 cents to play with, which he/she uses to go long more stocks. Hence the name 130/30. You can read my original post from back in December by clicking here.There has been some debate as to the best way to benchmark these funds' performance. Standard and Poor's indicated that they were going to launch coverage of the US 130/30 index by creating a screen for what stocks to be shorted by using the lowest 30 rated...
Wasatch Reopens Two Micro-Cap Funds
2008-05-02 16:46:00 Original post on The Sun’s Financial Diary Micro-cap fund specialist Washtch Advisors today announced that it will temporarily reopen two micro-cap funds, Wasatch International Opportunities Fund (WAIOX) Wasatch Micro Cap Value Fund (WAMVX), to all investors. Unlike other funds that were recently reopened, these two funds seem never available to individual investors because they were both ...
The Benefits of Mutual Fund Investing
2008-04-25 03:04:00 The power of a mutual fund lies in its ability to pool together funds from so many different investors. Imagine a thousand investors each with P5,000 to invest who decide to pool their funds together. That?s already a pool of P5 million! Now imagine that instead of just investing P5,000 each, some investors put in ...
Birla Sun Life MF set the record date for dividend announcement
2008-04-24 06:23:00 Birla Sun Life Mutual Fund (MF) declares to speak out dividend, below the dividend option of Birla Sun Life Quarterly Interval Fund - Series 6.The fund house set Apr. 21, 2008 as the record date for the announcement of dividend. It will announce the entire distributable surplus available on the record date, as dividend. Pursuant to payment of dividend, the NAV will fall to the extent of dividend payout and statutory levy, if applicable. The NAV of the dividend option of the scheme stood at Rs 10.05 per unit, as on Apr. 15, 2008. All unit holders registered on or before the record date will be eligible to get the dividend.
Frequently Ask Questions (FAQs) on Mutual Fund
2008-04-24 03:08:00 What is a mutual fund? A mutual fund is an investment vehicle that pools together the funds of various investors—both individuals and corporations. The pool of funds is managed by a professional fund manager who uses the funds to create a diversified investment portfolio consisting of various investment instruments such as stocks and bonds.
Investing in Mutual Fund
2008-04-23 05:55:00 Money is precious. As they say, it doesn’t grow on trees. But you can make it grow, even in this time of economic hardship. How? Simple. By investing wisely. There are indeed many ways to invest in today’s markets, but none is growing faster in popularity than mutual funds. Although this investment instrument has only been ...
A Few Ways To Find Out The Mutual Fund Performance
2008-04-20 02:30:00 A Few Ways To Find Out The Mutual Fund PerformanceBy: Muna Wa Wanjiru Mutual funds allow people to invest their money in a way that will provide them with future benefits. When you are looking at a mutual fund in which you can invest in you may wish to look at several different ones. The mutual fund performance will help you to see what stocks and bonds work well in the market as compared to others. You can also find more help with this answer in various financial news articles.One such article or guide that you may find to be useful is that of the Morningstar review. The review will have the latest market news which will indicate how a mutual fund performance has gone. You will also need to look at various other factors before you make any type of commitment about a mutual fund that you have seen.These factors are the price you need to pay to buy and sell your stocks and bonds. The type of load that you are signing up for and also the other administrative expenses yo...
Mutual Fund - Mutual Fund Basics You Should Know
2008-04-16 07:00:00 If you are in consideration of investing in the stock market in one way, shape, or form, you probably might have heard the term “mutual fund.” If you are like I was, you probably have no idea as to what the term actually means in terms of financial benefits or even exactly what a mutual ...
By: Resources zone
Mutual Fund - Mutual Fund Pros
2008-04-14 07:00:00 Every investment type has its own share of pros and cons, the same holds true when it comes to mutual funds investing. For a lot of investors this is the only way to go while others are very wary or even contemptuous of those who choose to go the safer waters of mutual funds rather ...
By: Resources zone
Vanguard to Launch Global Stock Index Fund
2008-04-03 02:53:00 Original post on The Sun’s Financial Diary According to a news release, mutual fund giant Vanguard has filed with SEC to offer a new, passive fund that invests in global stock markets. The Vanguard Global Stock Index Fund, which is set to be available for investors in the second quarter this year, tracks the FTSE All-World ...
Top 5 Mutual Fund Dangers And How To Avoid Them
2008-04-03 00:30:00 I just got a brand new 15 minute, 10 second trading video you need to see… - It’s all about why mutual funds could be poisoning your IRA… (and how to supercharge it back to health with a ‘mutual fund killer’) Share This
Realty Mutual Fund?s income to be out of Tax Net
2008-03-31 06:50:00 The uncertainty over the tax-treatment of real estate mutual funds is set to end soon. The government will exempt from tax the income generated by mutual funds which float schemes which aim to invest mainly in the stocks of realty firms. According to a senior revenue department official, real estate MFs and other MFs that ...
Received Public Mutual Fund Enquiry
2008-03-11 20:42:00 Yesterday I have received an email from stranger and asked me about the public mutual fund thing. I believe he know my contact and email after visit my public mutual blog. I already replied him and hope to receive his feedback soon. I just pray he is living in Melaka so that I can approach him. Hehe!
By: Comtech
Dollar-Cost Averaging: How to Invest on Mutual Funds and Stocks
2008-02-22 06:28:00 The best way to invest is to, in fact, invest, and to do on a regular basis. It sounds simpleminded, but it?s not. It takes discipline to invest even $300 every month, month in and month out, no matter what. But it is really the key to financial security. And it provides a very important benefit you may not know about: It lets you harness the power of dollar-cost averaging.Dollar-cost averaging frees you from the need to closely monitor the market and the stocks you own to determine (or rather, guess at) just the right moment to buy. By regularly investing the same amount in the same high-quality security month after month, you will acquire fewer shares when the price is high, but you?ll buy more shares when the price is low.For example, suppose you invest $100 a month in a favorite mutual fund. In the first month, shares are $10, so your $100 buys ten shares. The next month, the shares are $20, so you get five shares. You now own fifteen shares and you have invested $200. Your aver...
Tips For Choosing High-Performance Mutual Fund
2008-02-16 16:07:00 Most people who invest in mutual funds don't know what they are doing. They take advice from someone at a bank or perhaps a friend and plunk down money into a fund. Sometimes this strategy works, but most of the time, it doesn't. When you invest your money in a mutual fund, you are trusting someone to invest in the stock market for you. Because of this, you want to be sure this person knows what he or she is doing. Also, you want to make sure that this person is not charging you too much to manage your money for you. Mutual funds fees are "hidden," in the sense that they do not charge you an upfront fee but rather a percentage of the amount of money in your account. If this percentage is too high, you would do better just blindly picking stocks yourself. Here are five helpful tips for choosing the right mutual funds. 1. Keep the fees low. Generally, expense fees should not be much higher than 1% if it is just a basic domestic equity fund. You should never invest money in a fund th...
What is your Mutual Fund Costing You
2008-02-13 19:23:00 What do mutual funds have to do with real estate? They are where many people have their savings. Not just savings but retirement savings. It is out of these savings that some are planning to buy their second home in Tucson.
Should I buy a loaded mutual fund?
2008-02-13 09:01:00 Photo by: Snap@My mother is not very financially savvy - and when I try to explain anything to her; it can often times take the better part of an hour. It may be her age or the fact she never had any financial education being a stay at home mom, but I like to ...
Best Mutual Fund Investment with Tax Saving
2008-02-12 15:35:00 SBI Magnum Tax gain gives the dual benefit to investors for investing in a mutual fund (to get higher returns) and claiming tax benefit under Section 80C. With standard deviation of 22.13, SBI Magnum... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Tax Debt Help - What is a Mutual Fund?
2008-02-08 02:02:00 What is a Mutual Fund? A mutual fund pools your money with other investors’ and the capital is used to invest in a diversified portfolio of securities. Mutual funds are professionally managed to pursue each fund?s specific goal. As an investor in a mutual fund, you become a shareholder in a large portfolio of stocks, bonds and/or ...
Top 5 Tax saving Mutual Fund Schemes
2008-02-07 08:43:00 Invest in these Schemes for best of Safety and Returns Most of us have received emails from our HR/Admin asking us to submit the proof of Investments for the purpose of Tax Savings before a specified date and I am sure a lot of us are still in thinking mode as to where to invest for Tax savings. I had written a post last year (How to Invest for Tax Savings?) on the various avenues of tax savings and one more post on Top 5 tax saving funds. Well things have changed from last year in terms of stock market performance and it's right time to review which tax saving or ELSS (Equity linked saving schemes) should we invest in. Well, when I compared the tax saving schemes last year, I concentrated on the Top performing funds over a 5 year and 3 Year timeframe. We are currently going through such a phase in the stock markets which makes us think of saftey of our investments too. Hence I have introduced one more filter in terms of Risk profile of each fund (based on Standard deviation) and Y...
By: Investment Guru
Dodge & Cox Reopens Stock and Balanced Funds
2008-02-02 17:20:00 Original post on The Sun’s Financial Diary According to a statement released yesterday, Dodge & Cox will reopen its flagship Stock fund and Balanced fund next Monday, February 4th. The two funds were closed to new investors since 2004, though existing shareholders can still invest in both of them. In the statement, the company cited the lackluster ...
Recently Reopened Mutual Funds: Any Interesting Ones?
2008-01-29 03:01:00 Around the new year, many previously closed mutual funds reopened their doors to new investors, including such well-known names as Fidelity Magellan (FMAGX) and Oakmark International (OAKIX), after a rough second half of 2007. For investors who had an eye on these funds, but were denied access due to the closure, the reopening ...
Update: Active & Passive Funds Comparison
2008-01-22 16:32:00 Early this month, I read an article on USA Today with title, Index funds are never out of style. The article pointed out that for the past 10 years, the return of diversified US stock funds, which include small-, mid-, and large-cap funds, averaged at 6.7% while the S&P index returned 5.9% a year. The ...
Where to get the FII and Mutual Fund investment activity in Indian stock/eq
2008-01-20 10:12:00 FII (Foreign Institutional Investors) and Mutual funds activities are very important for short term traders to speculate the trend. Being major players most of the time their actions moves the market up or down. Fortunately SEBI (Securities and Exchange Board of India) publishes the total amount of buying and selling done by FIIs and Mutual Funds in the Indian equity and debt market.The data are made available to the public through SEBI's website in the "FII / Mutual Funds Trends" column. The webpage gives the last trading day's activities by FIIs and MFs and has archives for each day of current month. To visit the archieves for periods earlier than one month another archive section for both FIIs and Mutual Funds is available. To access any historical data enter the closing date of that month and click 'go'.According to a note on SEBI's website:"Note: The data pertains to all the activities undertaken by FIIs in Indian Securities Market, including trades done in secondary marke...
Reliance Natural Resources Fund NFO closes Jan 30
2008-01-17 10:37:00 Reliance Natural Resources Fund NFO which opened on January 01, 2008 will close on January 30, 2008. During the NFO period the units of Reliance Natural Resources Fund will be available at Rs. 10 per unit. With the Indian economy expected to grow at a very rapid pace, sectors like oil & gas, metals, mining, ...
Fidelity Magellan Fund (FMAGX): Should you buy the FUND or STOCKS instead?
2008-01-17 03:59:00 Fidelity Investments' decision to allow investors unfettered entry to its storied Magellan Fund (FMAGX) for the first time in a decade offers a promising opportunity for those who missed out on its quiet success in recent years. But while fund openings can portend a coming run-up in performance as managers lay down new bets, investors shouldn't buy into Magellan with an expectation that it is poised to take off.Like any other investment, isn't without risk and that should be just part of an overall investment plan. Some potential buyers are still enamored with a fund that did great things a generation ago. But Peter Lynch left the fund 18 years ago, and the fund has gone through several lead managers in that time. Since its peak eight years ago, when assets topped $100 billion, the fund has suffered net outflows every year.On the other hand, Harry Lange, who has managed Magellan Fund since October 2005, said a better balance of cash flows would give him the cash needed to pounce ...
Fidelity to Reopen Magellan Fund to New Investors
2008-01-15 04:33:00 The Fidelity Magellan Fund (FMAGX), which was once the nation’s largest mutual fund with an asset at $100 billion, will reopen to new investors tomorrow, January 15, 2008 after shutting its door more than 10 years ago, according to a Fidelity announcement. The main reason to make the flagship fund available to new investors is ...
UTI MF IPO - First Mutual Fund IPO in India
2008-01-12 12:18:00 UTI MF IPO, has received lots of attention and has generated considerable amount of hype since it is slated to become the first Mutual Fund IPO in India. Hence if UTI Mutual Fund IPO becomes successful, many IPO’s from mutual funds are likely to follow in 2008. UTI is the oldest mutual fund in India ...
Investing With Small Amounts: Stocks or Mutual Funds?
2008-01-11 16:11:00 There was a short Q&A in The Wall Street Journal yesterday where the question being asked is the following: I would like to buy only a few stocks in certain companies. Are there any online brokers that handle people with only a couple hundred dollars in their account and don’t charge heavy fees for infrequent ...
Money Management and Mutual Fund
2008-01-10 00:00:00 Mutual fund as you know is the pool of money managed by the fund managers to reap the returns out of the risky investments. MF investment is suitable for those investors who wants to get an exposure to the equity market but taking minimal risk. The fund managers invests the accumulation of the investors fund and invest them in a suitable researched equity, money market or debt fund portfolio. It is risky in the sense that, the NAV value can fluctuate with the stock market fluctuations. After providing the green signal to the private Mutual Fund companies (After SBI) in 1993, the Mutual Fund Industry in India has came across a long and successful growth path and another long way yet to go. You can find the Mutual Fund data in the AMFI website. This will tell you you how much fund is being managed by the Asset Management Companies. One can also go through this article for to get more information for the top mutual funds. Investing to the Mutual Funds is safe compared to the stock mark...
Debt Rating Agencies: As Worthless as Most Mutual Fund Managers?
2008-01-08 21:43:00 With the seemingly swift onset of the sub-prime mortgage meltdown in the United States, one has to wonder exactly what the true value of debt/credit rating agencies such as DBRS (Dominion Bond Rating Service), Moody's, Standard and Poor's, etc. actually is...If they are experts at analyzing debt, why did the sub-prime mess come straight out of left field? I suspect the REAL answers will never truly be revealed. Invariably the whole ordeal will be dragged down to the old "he said, she said" between Wall Street and the debt rating agencies - some fines, some new regulations and a few heads rolling to appease investors.But perhaps it is nonetheless time to look at the debt rating agencies in more detail. You might be surprised at some of these facts:Based on pre-tax margins...1. Moody's made more money than Microsoft or GOOGLE in the past 5 years.2. Moody's was the third most profitable company IN THE ENTIRE S&P 500 FOR THE LAST 5 YEARS3. Investors used...
Debt Rating Agencies: Parallels to Most Mutual Fund Managers?
2008-01-08 21:43:00 With the seemingly swift onset of the sub-prime mortgage meltdown in the United States, one has to wonder exactly what the true value of debt/credit rating agencies such as DBRS (Dominion Bond Rating Service), Moody's, Standard and Poor's, etc. actually is...If they are experts at analyzing debt, why did the sub-prime mess come straight out of left field? I suspect the REAL answers will never truly be revealed. Invariably the whole ordeal will be dragged down to the old "he said, she said" between Wall Street and the debt rating agencies - some fines, some new regulations and a few heads rolling to appease investors.But perhaps it is nonetheless time to look at the debt rating agencies in more detail. You might be surprised at some of these facts:Based on pre-tax margins...1. Moody's made more money than Microsoft or GOOGLE in the past 5 years.2. Moody's was the third most profitable company IN THE ENTIRE S&P 500 FOR THE LAST 5 YEARS3. Investors used...
[indianstockmarket] want to know about best Mutual Fund
2008-01-03 02:41:00 Hi, I just want invest my money in Mutual Fund,Can anyone suggest me that which scheme is good for high returns?. Thanks in Advance Regards Ahamed Mansoor Senior Web Designer Mediinfotec Adayar Chennai - 600 020
New Year gift to mutual fund investors, market regulator Sebi on Monday exe
2008-01-01 10:43:00 Please see all major financial/non-financial dailies… On 1/1/08, Andy Says wrote: > > Can someone authenticate this news ?? > > > >
Saskatchewan News - Former mutual fund agent gets 3 years for theft of $1.2
2007-12-31 21:19:00 Former mutual fund agent gets 3 years for theft of $1.2M A former mutual fund sales agent was sentenced to three years in prison in a Saskatoon court on Friday for stealing $1.2 million from clients. ‘‘
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