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  • Avoid This Mistake In Your Retirement Account Investing
    By: Stephen Swanson | - After the last 18 months in the stock market, many investors are shell-shocked. They thought they were on track, setting aside money, investing regularly in preparation for retirement.

    Then after the market top in October 2007 the economy contracted, the credit crunch hit, and the market collapsed. As the bull market of the last four years ended, most investors were unprepared for what happened in the last year and a half.

    Worse, most of them took no action to pro ...

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  • An Open-ended Income Scheme - Short Term Income Fund
    By: Ramesh Narayan | - This scheme seeks to generate income and capital appreciation by investing in a diversified portfolio of debt and money market securities. However, there can be no assurance that the income can be generated, regular or otherwise, or the investment objectives of the Scheme will be realized. The Scheme does not provide any assured or guaranteed returns. The minimum redemption amount is Rs.1000, the equivalent Unit value or even the entire account balance, whichever is lower.
    The two plans wi ...

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  • An Open-ended Income Scheme - Regular Return Fund
    By: Ramesh Narayan | - This scheme aims to generate regular income through two avenues. One is through investments in fixed income securities and the other is to generate long term capital appreciation by investing a portion in equity and equity related instruments. There is however, no assurance that the income can be generated, regular or otherwise, or that the investment objectives of the Scheme will be realized. The scheme has two variants known as the Regular Plan and the Eco Plan with a minimum redemption amount ...
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  • Investment Scam Alert 2009: Spread The Word
    By: Steve Selengut | - This is a real world situation that could impact each of you as professionals, investors, and friends of persons who could fall for such schemes. So please get angry about it!

    An envelope arrived yesterday from a worried investor (not a client of mine) in Appleton, Wisconsin. He had been contacted with an "investment partner" opportunity touting a "guaranteed investment program" that would absolutely "double and triple his money every sixty days" with no worries, work, or risk inv ...

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  • Mutual Funds Investing And Fees
    By: Presta | - Each sort of investing has its highs and lows. Those that deal in stocks enjoy the way that stock possession works and that it meets their investing goals. The same could be expounded for those that invest in mutual funds. There are both positives and negatives to investing in mutual funds, and we'll look at some of those positives right now. While mutual funds have developed into one of the most well liked and accessible forms of investing, they do come with some strings attached. It is not imp ...
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  • Use No Load Mutual Funds To Earn More Money
    By: Asher Ryan | - To make more money, you can invest what you already have. If you don't know much about investing and aren't interested in studying a ton, you could consider investing in mutual funds to get your share of investing in.With mutual funds, you can get excellent variety and diversification because a whole bunch of people invest their money together. This way, the manager of the fund can buy a larger variety of stocks, bonds, and/or other investments.You can't get much simpler than mutual funds, ...
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  • Explain No Load Mutual Funds?
    By: Asher Ryan | - We aren't born with the right knowledge to effectively invest in stocks and bonds. The good thing is, you don't have to be a finance expert to invest your money. Mutual funds is a way to invest in a variety of investments and you don't have to do it all on your own. In fact, you can get someone else to do it entirely.How does a mutual fund work? First, anyone who invests in the fund brings their money together. Then, a fund manager takes the money and invests it into all different inves ...
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  • No Load Mutual Funds Or Load Mutual Funds?
    By: Asher Ryan | - Are you interestedin investing in mutual funds but can't understand what a load or no load is? When a mutual fund charges fees such as a commission or set up fee, it is called a load mutual fund. No load funds do not charge any fees.You're probably assuming that a no load mutual fund is better because you don't pay any fees. It's easy to assume this, but you should first completely understand how it all works before you make that assumption.Mutual funds are a big time saver and they allo ...
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  • Tutorial, How To Use The Latest Liberty Reserve Debit Card
    By: Amanda S Young | - Over the past year Liberty Reserve has become a very popular payment system and has approximately 4,000 new account holders sign up per day.
    I felt it was necessary to write a tutorial on the latest Liberty Reserve Debit Card which offers you a convenient and instant way to access your funds using Liberty Reserve. I will assume you, like me, make money online using the Liberty Reserve payment system.
    I had a need for instant access to my Liberty reserve funds and I would like to sh ...

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  • Types Of Mutual Funds
    By: arcel | - There are many types of mutual funds available in the market but only four can be found in the Philippines, and these are: stock or equity funds, bond funds, balanced funds, and money market funds.


    * Stock or Equity Funds. Stock or Equity Funds pose a higher value for the investment. While that may be the case, any investment which poses higher returns have corresponding risks therefore the stock or equity funds contain very high risk. These funds are invested in Phili ...

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  • 6 Things Dating Teaches Us About Investing
    By: Mike McCoy | - 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 successful investing.

    Think I'm joking? Think again. Although I was a far cry from being the King of Dating, I did have a few albeit rare lucky streaks in me. And looking back over those rare few times, my moderate success on the dating circuit did teach me quite a few things about pruden ...

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  • Pros And Cons Of Indirect Investing
    By: William | - Investing indirectly means purchasing shares of companies that hold large portfolios of securities on behalf of their share holders. Indirect investing is a great opportunity for those who are willing to start investing with a small amount, having no previous knowledge or experience of stock markets ups and downs. You can decide if indirect investing is the right choice for you after examining the following features.

    Level of Risk:
    Although mutual funds are managed ...

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  • Compare Mutual Funds - The Secrets Of How To Compare Mutual Funds
    By: Victor .P. Ephenus | - If you are interested in investing in stocks, there are some funds worth checking out. When engaging in research right from the onset like this, it is better to choose rare different mutual funds. Before you start to compare mutual funds, you need to have certain goals in mind. For instance, comparing the performances of the companies you have selected.

    This means looking to see how the company has weathered the ups and downs of the stock market over a number of years. While this is ...

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  • Exchange Traded Funds
    By: Guru at 2 | - Exchange Traded Funds are investment vehicles that are traded in Stock Exchanges. They are traded just as stocks or bonds are traded. Exchange Traded Funds allow investors to trade index portfolios just as they do shares of stock. Exchange Traded Funds can be traded throughout the day unlike open-ended mutual funds which can be traded only at the end of the day when net asset value is calculated. Moreover, the Exchange Traded Funds can be sold short or purchased on margin.

    Exchang ...

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  • Mutual Funds Make Investing A Breeze
    By: Jim Pretin | - 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 many different types. It may consist of a mix of several different types of investment vehicles, such as stocks, bonds, or derivatives, or it may consist of nothing but stocks that are part of a certain sector of the economy, or it could be just bonds.

    For example, there are mutual fun ...

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  • Collective Soul Unplugged: Part One Shared By: BlackTsChica - Check out the unplugged Collective Soul concert at Q104 in support of the Children's Trust Fund! Loading...

  • Turning Up Mutual Fund Bargains Shared By: MorningstarInc - The basic set of criteria involves screening for no-load funds that are open to new investments of $25,000 or less. Adding a fund manager tenure of 10...

  • Do’s and Don’ts When Investing in Mutual Funds | Millionaire Acts Shared By: LadyProgrammer - In one of my previous posts, I mentioned about what to look for when buying mutual funds. Once you bought and invested your hard-earned money into...

  • what are the costs involved in mutual funds Shared By: blogtoblog - Funds sold by an adviser usually carry a sales charge. The 3 basic types charges are categorized as share classes. These are designed for clients with...

  • Canadian Mutual Funds | AXXA Finance Shared By: PLRClub - Mutual funds are one of the methods whereby people can earn some money by saving without much risk. With mutual funds the company has a number of...

  • Difference Between Load and No load Mutual Funds | LetsLearnFinance Shared By: vinishparikh - A mutual fund can be defined as an investment scheme that pools money from many investors and invests it in stocks, bonds, short-term money market...

  • FundAdvice.com - Ten reasons you should never buy a load fund Shared By: chrisnck5 - It's too simple to say that all no-load funds are superior to all load funds. You're obviously better off in a top load fund than in a crummy no-load.


  • Best Stock Picks
    By: Gerry Wollert | - Here are just a few examples from "TradingMarkets.com":

    * Amazon.com ( AMZN) Q2 Earnings Fall, Miss Estimates; Boosts FY06. AMZN shares plummet over 22 (7/26/06)

    *Bristol-Myers Squibb ( BMY) Q2 Profit Declines On Higher R&D Expenses; EPS Beats Estimate; Reveals Probe Into Plavix Settlement; Stock Plunges ( full story). BMY shares drop by over 7 (7/27/06)

    *Aetna ( AET) Q2 Profit Down 1 (7/27/06)

    * Eastman Kodak ( EK) Q2 Loss Widens On Ch ...

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  • Stock Market Investing Basics For Beginners
    By: Gerry Wollert | - There are several important things you should consider before you begin investing in the stock market:

    First off, pay off any credit card balances and other short term loans before even considering an investment in the stock market. Also, get in the habit of paying off your entire credit card balances every month. Paying credit card companies large interest on your balances is a sure way to prevent you from building long term wealth.

    Second, maximize your contribu ...

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  • Wisconsin People Owed $25 Million From Their Unclaimed Property Department
    By: Nicole Anderson | - Could you believe that a few days ago, 25,000 people from Wisconsin owned nearly $25 Million from their unclaimed property department? Each check was of around $1000. Surprisingly, lot other people are still waiting for their chance.

    What exactly is Unclaimed Money?

    Unclaimed money literally means any form of business that is abandoned and is left unnoticed by the owner. This abandoned property might be anything your payroll check, tax refunds and stock shares also. ...

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  • Use Second Mortgage
    By: Jurul Chort | - An individual's home is the biggest asset that one has at his disposal. A home to back you up when you need a loan is one of the greatest advantages of home ownership. In recent years, there has been a major boom in the amount of people looking to use their homes as a way to get access to extra money when they need it most. One of the best ways to do this is through a second mortgage.
    Second mortgage loans are loans that are made in addition to the first mortgage, and it is usually ...

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  • The Abcs Of Exchange Traded Funds
    By: Bill Byrnes | - 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 funds that trade like stocks (and closed-end mutual funds).

    There are three legal structures of ETFs: Open-end mutual fund (the difference between the ETF structure and an open-end mutual fund is the ETF is exchange traded, whereas the traditional mutual fund is purchased and redeeme ...

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  • Indexing For Passive Aggressive Investors
    By: Bill Byrnes | - Let's dispel the notion once and for all that index funds are only for passive investors. Sure, the original index funds tracked the S&P and were meant for investors who either believed you couldn't beat the market or didn't want to try.

    Since their beginning, index funds have expanded their breath. You can find a fund which tracks any of the major indices and most industry sectors, such as health care and technology. The first cousin of index funds, Exchange Traded Funds (ETF ...

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  • Financial Advisors, Financial Planners And Investment Managers
    By: Michael A. Weiss, CFA | - Finding a suitable investment professional is not easy. The number of different titles alone is enough to make your head spin. But in a nutshell, there are basically three different types of investment professionals: financial advisors, financial planners and investment managers.

    Financial Advisors. These investment professionals, also known as brokers, financial consultants, wealth managers and wealth advisors, are paid primarily to sell investment products and services. In ...

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  • Prospering With Mutual Funds: How Anyone Can Afford"' An Investment Advisor
    By: Ulli G.Niemann | - Recently I was invited to appear on a live CNNfn television show to discuss my article How to evaluate Load vs. No Load Mutual Funds. (You can read that article on my website http://www.successful-investment.com/articles21.htm)

    As the producer and I were working out the logistics of my appearance, she mentioned in passing that most people can't afford an investment advisor.

    While that wasn't the time or place for me to discuss this, I realize ...

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  • No Load Mutual Funds: Investment Hype Vs. Investment Help
    By: Ulli G.Niemann | - With the internet such a huge part of our daily lives, many investors have access to a wide range of instant investment information.

    Whether you're into stocks, bonds, mutual funds, futures or options, there are tons of electronic investment newsletters offering to turn your small stake into a giant fortune. All you need to do is subscribe and watch your portfolio soar.

    Yeah, right!

    As a practicing investment advisor specializing in no load mut ...

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  • No Load Mutual Funds Or Exchange Traded Funds (etfs)?
    By: Ulli G.Niemann | - If you are fed up with early redemption charges and ever increasing mutual fund management fees on top of bad-performing fund managers, read on. There is a quiet revolution going on in the no-load mutual fund industry and you, the individual investor, may benefit from it greatly.

    I am referring to Exchange Traded Funds (ETFs), which have been around for years, but have grown tremendously since their inception. There are currently over 100 choices with around $10 billion in assets. ...

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  • How (not) To Buy Mutual Funds
    By: Ulli G.Niemann | - When it comes to mutual funds, there is a lot more to success than just finding a good one. Sad investment stories like the following are all too common. I hope my sharing it with you will help you avoid making the same devastating financial mistake one of my former clients made.

    This story begins during the height of the investment madness in 2000, just prior to the bear market. I had been managing an IRA account for "Bob" for around six years, with a better than average record o ...

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  • How To Evaluate Load Vs. No Load Mutual Funds
    By: Ulli G.Niemann | - If you have been dealing with mutual funds for any length of time, you undoubtedly have faced the question of which is better: Load Funds or No Load Funds. If you are new to investing, "load" simply refers to the commission paid to the broker selling the fund. "No load" means there is no commission on the purchase or sale.

    Most discussions in the past have centered exclusively on performance comparisons. Even rating services like Morningstar have occasionally chimed in with their ...

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  • How To Find Value In No Load Mutual Fund Investing
    By: Ulli G.Niemann | - What are you thinking when it comes to your no load mutual fund selections? Are you saving pennies and sacrificing dollars?

    Are you spending your time looking at expense ratios, analyzing Morningstar ratings and searching for funds with low fees and no 12b1 charges? If you are like most people, you know these things in and out. You've spent hours evaluating them, and your chosen mutual funds cost little to purchase and maintain. But they still don't perform to your hopes and expec ...

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  • Best Mutual Funds: Which Mutual Funds Are The Best For You?
    By: Michael A. Weiss, CFA | - Even the Best Mutual Funds Are Not Appropriate for Every Investor.

    People often ask the question, which are the best mutual funds? This is almost an impossible question to answer without knowledge of important information such as a person's time horizon, risk tolerance, preferences, tax situation and other financial circumstances.

    The Best Mutual Funds Should Be Consistent with Your Risk Tolerance

    The most important factor to consider when provid ...

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  • Diversify Your Portfolio Easily With Mutual Funds
    By: Jim Pretin | - 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 many different types. It may consist of a mix of several different types of investment vehicles, such as stocks, bonds, or derivatives, or it may consist of nothing but stocks that are part of a certain sector of the economy, or it could be just bonds.

    For example, there are mutual fun ...

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  • Mutual Fund Investing: Etfs And Index Funds Versus Actively Managed Mutual Funds
    By: Michael A. Weiss, CFA | - Mutual Fund Asset Allocators: ETFs and Index Funds

    There are two distinct schools of thought when it comes to investing in mutual funds. One group, which I will call, Asset Allocators, utilizes what is commonly referred to as a top-down mutual fund investment approach. The top-down approach emphasizes the big picture by first examining the economy and condition of the broad financial markets and then evaluating individual mutual funds based on standard financial measures of ...

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  • Mutual Fund Advice: Mutual Fund Recommendations, Resources And Radio
    By: Michael A. Weiss, CFA | - Mutual fund investors seek advice, recommendations, information and news from a wide variety of resources such as Morningstar, CNBC, and Bloomberg to name a few. Some sources provide mutual fund advice while others provide news & information and some provide a combination of both. Mutual fund advice and/or information that is available online, in print, on television or on the radio is almost never personalized and needs to be evaluated in the context of each investor's own investment objec ...
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  • Top Mutual Funds: Building No Load Mutual Fund Portfolios
    By: Michael A. Weiss, CFA | - Building a mutual fund portfolio requires a well thought out investment strategy that can prove rewarding over a long period of time. If you act as your own investment advisor, you will most likely implement a strategy that focuses on no load mutual funds. No load mutual fund investors normally either invest in the best mutual funds from one fund family, sometimes with the help of a mutual fund newsletter, or invest in the top mutual funds from several fund families. The rationale for implementi ...
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  • Best No Load Mutual Funds: Learn Why Mutual Fund Research Matters!
    By: Michael A. Weiss, CFA | - Finding the best no load mutual funds is no easy task because today's top funds often become tomorrow's worst performing funds and vice versa. As the saying goes, the faster they go up, the faster they come down. The temptation for the average person to invest in this year's best performing funds is almost overwhelming. Unfortunately, investors all too often focus solely on historical performance without considering how the fund achieved the superior results or whether t ...
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  • Mutual Funds Make Investing Simple
    By: Jim Pretin | - 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 average investor whether they have any of their investment dollars allocated to a fund, they will likely answer yes. There are literally trillions of dollars of American money currently invested in mutual funds.

    Funds have made investing for the average investor a little less complicated. ...

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  • Is There A Good Reason To Go With A Structured Settlement No Load Model?
    By: Mayoor Patel | - As many people know, there are a number of different ways that a structured settlement can be established and payments be disbursed. One may choose to set up an annuity fund and issue regularly scheduled payments to the recipient until the settlement is satisfied. The amount of the settlement can be invested in mutual funds and the payments issued will vary depending on how well the investment portfolio is performing currently. However, there is the issue within the latter scenario as to whether ...
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  • Mutual Funds Make It Easy To Diversify
    By: Jim Pretin | - 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 average investor whether they have any of their investment dollars allocated to a fund, they will likely answer yes. There are literally trillions of dollars of American money currently invested in mutual funds.

    Funds have made investing for the average investor a little less complicated. ...

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  • Investing Advice: 5 Benefits Of Etfs
    By: Pat Regan | - When people ask for investing advice, ETFs usually come up pretty quickly, because they are so heavily marketed and trumped by the industry. Exchange-traded funds, or ETFs, are an easy way to diversify a small investment, but to get the most out of your investment, it is important to understand how they operate.

    ETFs are like mutual funds, in that they are a collection of investments, but they are traded on an exchange, such as the NYSE, instead of purchased directly from the issu ...

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  • How To Select Mutual Funds
    By: Jim Pretin | - 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 many different types. It may consist of a mix of several different types of investment vehicles, such as stocks, bonds, or derivatives, or it may consist of nothing but stocks that are part of a certain sector of the economy, or it could be just bonds.

    For example, there are mutual ...

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  • Introduction To Mutual Funds
    By: Jim Pretin | - 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 average investor whether they have any of their investment dollars allocated to a fund, they will likely answer yes. There are literally trillions of dollars of American money currently invested in mutual funds.

    Funds have made investing for the average investor a little less complicate ...

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  • How Do I Find The Top Mutual Funds?
    By: Robert Z. Martinder | - Copyright 2006 Market Signal Systems LLC

    All investors are looking to find the top mutual funds for investing their money. We all want to know where our money will grow the fastest and be the safest. But sometimes it can seem overwhelming to sort through all the options available to sort out which are really the top mutual funds for us.

    The first step in sorting out the top mutual funds and determining the best place to put your money is to identify your investment ...

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  • Mutual Funds Expenses
    By: Michael Saville | - Copyright 2006 Michael Saville

    Sometimes investors think of mutual funds as a straight choice between no-load funds or load funds, because that is what they read about in the financial or popular press. But, there are a host of mutual fund expenses that can be charged to a no-load mutual fund as well as a load mutual fund.

    About 99% of mutual funds charged fees. So the trick is to find a mutual fund that has low yearly fees so that they don't significantly reduce th ...

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  • Load Balancing And Yahoo!
    By: Danny Wirken | - A high-volume site like Yahoo! knows that the actual quality of service any web server provides to end users basically depends on network-transfer speed and server response time. Network-transfer speed refers to the Internet-link bandwidth while server-response time depends upon resources including fast CPU, lots of RAM and good I/O performance. Once these resources are exhausted and the web-server is encountering heavy traffic, a problem would surely arise.

    Load Balancing
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  • How To Look For The Best No Load Mutual Funds
    By: Michael Saville | - Copyright 2006 Michael Saville

    Low fees and expense ratios.

    In their search for the best no load mutual fund, some investors tend to select mutual funds based solely on their fees and expense ratios. The rationale is that by choosing mutual funds with low fees, investors can have more of their capital invested. Also, no load mutual funds with low expense ratios will pass on more of the returns they earn to their shareholders. However, metrics such as price/earnings ...

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  • Stay Away From Load Funds !
    By: Sachin Asher | - Load is defined as the fee or the commission that an investor pays to a mutual fund at the time of purchasing or redeeming the shares of the mutual fund.

    If the commission is charged when the investor buys the shares, it is known as a front-end load. On the other hand if the commission is charged when the investors redeems his shares, it is known as a back-end load.

    Certain funds apply back-end loads only if the shares are redeemed within a specific time period afte ...

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  • Why You Should Avoid Load Mutual Funds (part 2)
    By: Michael Saville | - Copyright 2006 Michael Saville

    Paying a load is akin to throwing away most or all of the supposed advantage you get from having a salesman choose a fund for you. If it's true that asset allocation accounts for 95 percent of investment results over long periods of time, then only 5 percent is left over as a reward for having the "right" fund and the "right" manager. But even if a salesman could help you pick that "right" fund, paying him a commission of 5 percent wipes out the bene ...

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  • Why You Should Buy No-load Funds!
    By: Sachin A | - Load is defined as the fee or the commission that an investor pays to a mutual fund at the time of purchasing or redeeming the shares of the mutual fund.

    If the commission is charged when the investor buys the shares, it is known as a front-end load. On the other hand if the commission is charged when the investors redeems his shares, it is known as a back-end load.

    Certain funds apply back-end loads only if the shares are redeemed within a specific time period afte ...

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