Most Actively-Managed Mutual Funds Fail To Beat The Market

Most investors attempt to beat the market at some point in their investing career. Some investors delve into picking individual stocks and others try market timing, but the most common way new investors try to beat the market is buying actively-managed mutual funds. Many people think by looking at a fund manager’s past record or [...]

What Are Management Fees?

Management fees, as the name implies, are fees that a fund management company charges for “managing” your money. As a rule of thumb, fees are higher if your money is managed “actively” which is the case with almost all mutual funds. Such a fund management company presumably puts more effort behind managing your money than [...]

Effect Of Hedge Funds Today On Retail Investors

As the hedge fund industry continues to grow, the markets have turned increasingly volatile today. This logically hurts the less-informed retail investors as it forces more price instability related risks onto their positions even in bullish periods.
Growth of Hedge Funds
Presently, the hedge fund industry exceeds $1 trillion, and still expanding as money managers attempt to [...]

Getting A Grip On Hedge Fund Investments

When it comes to the term hedge fund, you will find that it cannot be easily defined, and that not always does it imply that a hedging technique has been used. A large number of the hedge funds that one can invest in today will use a variety of different strategies.
Most of the hedge funds [...]

Once You Trade E-Minis You’ll Never Trade Stocks Again! – Discover the Great Advantages of E-Minis

Ever noticed how Mutual Fund companies never talk about anything but ‘investing’…for the long haul? Ever noticed how even when ‘day trading’ became such a hot item, that stocks were the only thing they traded…and most still do? The public doesn’t know this — that while the mutual fund companies with all of their advertising [...]