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Investing in this day and age is easy and for newer investor's the most straight forward way to do so is via stocks, exchange traded funds and/or mutual funds. I have written a lot on these topics...
Investing in ETFs is like investing in stocks and normally purchased in the same manner - meaning you pay transactions costs whenever you buy or sell an ETF. Mutual funds on the other hand normally...
From an investor perspective though, you can treat leveraged ETF's like any other ETF/stock that you buy through your online broker. The key is understand how you can make money via the ETF from...
First practiced by the Japanese central bank in 2001-2006, this radical step in monetary management has now been taken in the last few months by the US Federal Reserve, the Bank of England, and the...
A fund based on a perfectly reasonable strategy performed miserably over the past year because it gorged on financial stocks.
It's nice to see Kiplinger acknowledge this ETF after they labeled...
If the banking system, in spite of the governments explicit guarantees, is actually on the brink of collapse then god help us all. However if stocks have been oversold due to investor panic and...
Active investing, otherwise known as stock picking is a trillion dollar industry that just doesn't work. Don't believe me? Look at what happened to Bill Miller, until last year considered one of...
In my blog, Dividend Growth Investor, I am always trying to find out the best dividend stocks which would provide me with a dividend income stream that would increase above the levels of inflation...
I personally believe that investors need to take maximum advantage of their early years of savings and put as much as possible in the stock market. Only after they have 15 years or less to...
There are many currency ETF’s out there covering not only major pairs such as the Euro, British Pound, Japanese Yen and Swiss Frank but other exotic currencies such as the Chinese Yuan and the...
Every quarter Standard & Poor's issues its "Index Versus Active Funds Scorecard" and seldom does the picture change. On average, index funds beat active managed funds, both US and international....
ETS (Exchange Traded Funds) are considered one of the most innovative new investment products of the last two decades. Why then, have most investment advisors skipped recommending them to their...