An interesting piece in the October 30, 2010 publication of the Economist the suggests that China may not be as big a deal as we are all making it out to be. The article, titled The Indispensable Economy? China May Not Matter Quite As Much As You Think, makes a strong case for not investing [...]
A few days ago, we wrote about how Index Funds are not the easy solution that many mutual fund investors would like them to be. In fact, there are about as many different categories of index funds are there are other specialty asset classes, which actually makes choosing the right index fund about as easy [...]
Although there is a lot to be said about investing in Index Funds rather than actively managed mutual funds, the decision as to which Index Fund in which you should invest is no easy task. Search for the term Index Funds at Yahoo! Finance and you will get no less than 650 results! This is [...]
Index funds are a hot topic for mutual fund investors because there is a growing belief that index funds will outperform actively managed funds within their respective categories (e.g. a fund that invests in small cap funds would underperform a small cap index fund). A lot of academic research has been done on this topic [...]
