This debate will never end. Actively managed mutual funds are not the easiest of animals to tame. Performance relies on a series of variables that few of us could deal with on a day-to-day basis. And ..

If you have a pension, you are probably invested in some way in hedge funds. They have been described as the gated community of investing in part because they require large amounts of available capita..

Bad date last night? Don't despair. It's not as bad as you may think. Here's some good news: you may not know it, but when it comes to your money, that bad date can teach you an awful lot about succe..

Hedge funds are similar to mutual funds but with several important differences. First, hedge funds are private funds that are typically only open to wealthy, experienced investors. Second, these fun..

Gets your attention, doesn't it? The unfortunate thing though, is that most people will react negatively to this intentionally inflammatory, media-ready, title statement. Has some Wall Street virus at..

Smack, right up alongside the head. Your 401(k) investment program deteriorated rapidly as the stock market and the economy weakened. Who would have thought that there was so much risk of loss in thos..

Any type of investing is somewhat of a gamble. Unless you are doing strict savings in a savings account (secured with insurance by the federal government up to $100,000 per individual for each institu..

Most people have heard the term 'mutual funds' but few have actually used this as an investment medium. Most small investors however have a very limited understanding of mutual funds that goes somethi..

The economy faces serious challenges in 2008: 1. New home sales are at a 16 year low and may go lower; 2. Inflation will be high for the next few months as energy and food prices work their way thro..

If you know absolutely anything about investing, then you have probably heard of mutual funds. Once an obscure investment vehicle, they are now popular with almost all investors. If you ask your ave..

Every investor should consider Exchange Traded Funds (ETFs). The younger brother of open-end index mutual funds is growing up fast and showing greater versatility. ETFs are open-end index mutual fu..

With so many options out there for the individual investor, it is sometimes difficult to determine that investments are right for you. The key to having a long-term, stable and profitable portfolio is..

Alan Greenspan writes extensively about the global economy in The Age of Turbulence. He believes there are common dominators to economic success. One is a cultural desire for growth, which includes ..

One of the mantras of mutual fund investing is to look at a fund's turnover before you buy it. The implication is that a high turnover is bad. (Turnover is the percentage of a funds holdings that ar..

Years ago trading was usually an activity carried out by wealthy individuals from families that had likely been wealthy for generations. It wasn't uncommon for the corporations of old to be owned and ..

According to the Cashflow quadrants by Robert Kiyosaki, I will need to switch to either a business owner or an investor to become wealthy. If I were to choose the path as an investor, I realized that ..

If you are new to investing, you may have heard of mutual funds but do not know exactly what they are or how to select the right one. A mutual fund is a collective investment security, and there are ..

Mutual funds are one of the financial world's most popular investment vehicles, and for good reason. For a relatively small investment, these funds give individual investors the ability to buy a diver..