Don't Believe in Buy and Hold
A. Gary ShillingEven during rip-roaring bull markets investors miss a good chunk of the gains. Buy and hold RIP.The recent 57% collapse in the S&P 500 index to its most recent low on March 9 followed hard upon the 38% decline in the 2000-2002 bear market. And the five-year recovery from that sw ...

JM Mutual Fund Under Performs The Sensex - April 28 2009
Background: JM Financial Mutual Fund is one of India's first private sector mutual funds-an integral parts of the first wave that commenced operations in 1993-94. JM Financial Asset Management Private Limited the Asset Management Company of JM Financial Mutual Fund is not a part of this joint v ...


ICICI Prudential Target Returns Fund Review & Analysis
So what is the lesson learnt from this stock market turmoil? That is the answer to why ICICI Mutual fund house has come out with the NFO or New Fund offer for the ICICI Prudential Target Returns Fund. Now instead of getting into the hectic mumbo-jumbo let me tell you straight. This is a new fun ...

Fees in Your 401(k)
Last week I came across a study done by the Investment Company Institute together with Deloitte regarding the expenses charged by 401(k) and other defined contribution plans. Here’s the short version:The median fee for the 130 plans in the study was 0.72 percent of assets within a range from ...

What is a Mutual Fund?
In this weeks edition of Investing Basics we discuss Mutual Funds.What are Mutual Funds?A mutual fund is simply a term for most sorts of collective investment fund. The idea is that multiple investors pool their money together which is invested in stocks bonds money markets and/or other securit ...