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Darkness Looming on Debt Issue – What Lesson Can Be Learned
We interrupt our mutual fund series for this important post on the looming debt crisis. Or, never mind the word “looming”; it has been here all the while.
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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