Mutual Funds Weekly These mutual fund and ETF investing tips can help you avoid the market’s traps Beating an index, more about the ‘Magnificent Seven,’ and AI’s impact on financial advice By MarketWatch Published: Feb. 15, 2024 at 8:18 a.m. ETPhoto...
Now lets consider the risk to your capital as it relates to growth mutual funds. First, keep in mind that “safety” means different things to different people. When it comes to mutual funds, there are 3 or 4 ways to define safety. Let’s go through them one by one. 1. Is Your ...
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OPEC continues to talk about production cuts and other efforts to curtail output and prop up pricing. Should that persist, we’ll see the necessary switch to lower supply and more demand, which should push oil prices higher in 2018. Thus, funds heavy in oil stocks — such as VGENX — sh...
The other lesson is to pay attention to the relationships that sometimes occur between asset managers and the platforms that distribute those funds. You can see that in this country where much of the ownership in funds is not direct, but rather when you review the prospectus, indirect through ...
Look forward to almost the end of May. The total returns on those domestic and international funds have melted away by anywhere from five hundred to a thousand basis points. Those who were afraid that the train was leaving the station and piled back into the equity markets in the first week...
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Third, they providestrong absolute returnseven when they have weak relative ones. In the case of Global Value they have churned out returns around 17-18% over the trailing three- and five-year periods. Combine that with uniformly “low” Morningstar risk scores for both funds and you get an...
and compensation incentives or disincentives, it becomes harder to generate consistent outperformance. And if you are an individual investor who keeps increasing the number of mutual funds that he or she has invested in (think Noah and the Ark S...
Most long-short managers don’t have an answer; over the past five years, the average market neutral equity fund has returned 1.3% annually while ultra-short bond funds clocked in a 0.8%. Cognios clocked in with a five-year return of 4.6% annually, three-and-a-half times its average ...