Tag Archives: ETFs

This article provides a satirical translation of common phrases used in mutual fund marketing materials. While terminology such as Core, Diversified, Sustainable ESG, Impact Focused, Aggressive Growth, and Enhanced may suggest discipline or innovation, the underlying strategies are often more conventional than labels imply. Investors are encouraged to interpret marketing language with greater scrutiny and context.

Why should you invest in gold & silver? How much of your investment dollars should you allocate to them? Should it be invested in bullion, ETFs, mutual funds, individual mining/royalty stocks or warrants? This article provides the answers.

Today’s infographic comes to us from StocksToTrade and it showcases the basics around mutual funds, including their history, typical structures, why people invest in them, and how fees usually break down.

The amount of evidence stacking up that mutual funds do not provide value for their investors is just staggering so what is an investor to do?

While ETFs offer numerous advantages over traditional actively-managed mutual funds and individual stocks - near total transparency, intraday trading, and a (generally) more straightforward tax situation - they aren’t foolproof, and there are plenty of opportunities to make mistakes while investing in ETFs. Words: 1991

Building your portfolios with low-cost, tax-efficient ETFs is a smart strategy but don't set it on auto pilot. Follow these 10 ETF investment rules to build a global portfolio that will beat the benchmarks.

Whether you’re already an ETF investor or have just been hearing about them, you may be curious to know more or understand them better. Here are 5 questions (and brief answers) to help you get started.

Follow these five trading tips and you’ll be surprised how much your results can improve. Are they magic? No, not at all. You’ll still have plenty of ups and downs but good trade execution is still a very important step for more active investors. Words: 994

Which types of investment behavior are most associated with negative returns and to what degree? This article isolates 2 specific bad behaviors that hurt investor returns most and recommends how such shortcomings can easily be avoided.

I am not normally a big fan of precious metals but in 2013 I am an unabashed fan of silver. If SLV were to return 15% next year there is a 95% probability that a ProShares Ultrashort Silver ETF (ZSL) put option on SLV would return 80%+! [Let me explain how I have come to that conclusion.] Words: 985