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The Groups One Should Avoid
After discussing in the last post about why it is highly advisable to join investment or business groups, the next question should be about which groups to join or not to join.
What To Look For in Mutual Funds
Given the current volatile situation of the markets, it does not look like an ideal time to invest in mutual funds as I have been suggesting in the last few posts.
Nevertheless, I feel that our mutual fund series has been hanging a little too long and needing a winding up or a concluding post of sorts. Something that should serve as a simple guideline on what to look for in mutual funds. This post hopes to fill in the need.
Posted in Mutual Funds
Tagged bottomline, due diligence, homework, investment gurus, Mutual funds, track record
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Put Your Reserves in Time Deposits and Sleep Well
For this post, we take up the issue of reserve funds. These are the funds you set aside for emergencies and the funds you earmark for the kids tuition fees, renewal of licenses, payment of realty taxes and other needs.
The other items
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Focus on Equity Funds and Forget the Others
After the last post’s explosive take on bogus mutual funds, we now inch closer to investing in mutual funds by deciding on which among the various types of mutual funds to invest in.
Posted in Mutual Funds
Tagged balanced funds, bond funds, equity funds, money-market funds
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The Five Telling Signs of a Bogus Mutual Fund
For this post, let us step back a little and revisit our first mutual fund article entitled, “Why We Need to Learn Something About Mutual Funds.”
In that previous post, we mentioned that the third reason for learning something about mutual is that:
Mutual funds, or bogus representations thereof, are a favorite tool of scammers, charlatans and unscrupulous characters in duping people.
Well, having learned something about mutual funds from the previous posts, we now turn to the issue of bogus mutual funds and how to spot them.
Are You Ready to Invest in Mutual Funds
After having some working idea of what a mutual fund is from the previous post, we may now proceed further by determining whether or not we are ready to invest in mutual funds.
This post therefore hopes to continue with our mutual fund series by giving some ideas or tips to determine our readiness to invest in mutual funds.
Posted in Mutual Funds
Tagged Benjamin Graham, investable money, Mutual funds, ownership of a home
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Mutual Funds – The Bare Bones
Having established the reasons why we need to learn something about mutual funds and having laid down a simple definition in the last post, it looks incumbent upon us now to explain the bare bones or basics of what it is.
This post will therefore be like a simple tutorial. We will try to elaborate on the concept, see how mutual funds make money for the investor, dwell on the advantages and the disadvantages thereof, briefly touch the types of mutual funds and then finally make a quick summing up. We try to keep this as simple as possible.
Why We Need to Learn Something About Mutual Funds
For this post, we take an initial dip into the realm of something they call mutual funds. Just an initial dip, I should emphasize – something brief enough for a blog post like this. And hopefully, substantial enough to whet our appetites for a future possible all-out plunge on the pool of this potentially exciting subject.