Topic: Mutual Funds
What you might not know about ETFs and other fund types
Stockhouse
Pros and cons in this investing primerWhy invest in a fund, a cluster of stocks, rather than the stocks themselves? The reasons are twofold.
First, a fund provides cheaper diversification for those investors with smaller amounts of capital. Buying each component of a fund spreads out your risk in the ...
Get ready: Interest rate hikes bring good and bad
AP News
Bonds away: Coming rate hikes likely to be bad for bonds but may help investors in other waysThe rate hikes are coming! The rate hikes are coming! Eventually. Days after the Federal Reserve seemed to sound the alarm that the era of near-zero interest rates is ending, Chairman Ben Bernanke ...
Money fund assets fell to $3.166T in latest week
AP News
Money fund assets fell by $1.63 billion to $3.166 trillion in latest weekTotal money market mutual fund assets fell by $1.63 billion to $3.166 trillion for the week, the Investment Company Institute said Thursday. Assets of the nation's retail money market mutual funds fell by ...
Fidelity's 2009 profit rises 5 percent
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Fidelity Investments' 2009 profit rises 5 percent as fund performance improvesFidelity Investments said Thursday its operating profit rose 5 percent last year, boosted in part by job cuts, as revenue continued to lag after two years of unusual volatility in financial markets. The nation's largest mutual fund company also ...
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