http://www.netvouz.com/infor626/tag/investment?feed=rss&pg=7 infor626's bookmarks tagged "investment" on Netvouz http://www.theskilledinvestor.com/wp/how-investment-securities-are-valued-snapshots-in-time-142.htm Snapshots in time - How investment securities are valued Every securities market transaction requires a buyer and seller with differing viewpoints. Markets infor626 Wed, 07 May 2008 18:53:52 GMT http://www.theskilledinvestor.com/ss.item.23/how-investment-securities-are-valued-snapshots-in-time.html How investment securities are valued -- snapshots in time - Personal Investment Management > How Stock and Bond Markets Value Investment Securities - Financial Articles, Every securities market transaction requires a buyer and seller with differing viewpoints. Differences between investors in their assessments of the intrinsic value and risk of securities allow markets to operate. infor626 Wed, 07 May 2008 18:53:52 GMT http://www.theskilledinvestor.com/ss.item.36/how-many-mutual-funds-are-needed-for-a-well-diversified-portfolio-a-commentary.html How many mutual funds are needed for a well-diversified portfolio? - Commentary - Personal Investment Management > Investment Asset Diversification Articles -- Reducing Your Portfolio Risk - Financial Articles, Additional mutual funds in a portfolio improve diversification slightly, when looked at year to year. However, if the terminal value of a portfolio after multi year investment holding periods is considered, then very substantial reductions in risk or volatility can be achieved by holding multiple mutual funds. infor626 Wed, 07 May 2008 18:53:52 GMT http://www.theskilledinvestor.com/ss.item.35/how-many-mutual-funds-are-needed-for-a-well-diversified-portfolio-evidence.html How many mutual funds are needed for a well-diversified portfolio? - evidence - Personal Investment Management > Investment Asset Diversification Articles -- Reducing Your Portfolio Risk - Financial Articles, Mutual funds are not created equally. Particularly with actively managed mutual funds, performance can vary significantly – even when those funds are pursuing similar strategies or “styles.” Holding multiple funds will reduce the volatility or risk of your portfolio. infor626 Wed, 07 May 2008 18:53:52 GMT http://www.theskilledinvestor.com/ss.item.2/how-much-do-hidden-mutual-fund-trading-expenses-cost-you.html How much do hidden mutual fund trading expenses cost you? - Personal Investment Management > Cost Control and Investment Performance Improvement Articles - Financial Articles, The average mutual fund paid .27% of net assets in hidden commissions in 2001. When measured on a capitalization weighted basis, the average hidden commission cost was .19% of net assets. The effective trading costs related to the bid/ask spread and the temporary shifting of these spreads added .36% more annually in the hidden costs of the average fund. For funds with the highest turnover, hidden commission and bid/ask spread expenses exceeded 3% of assets annually. infor626 Wed, 07 May 2008 18:53:52 GMT http://www.theskilledinvestor.com/ss.item.10/how-stable-have-common-stock-equity-risk-premiums-been-over-time.html How stable have common stock market returns been over time? - Personal Investment Management > Investment Returns and Securities Market Risk Premiums Articles - Financial Articles, The short term common stock equity premium, which averaged about 4.1% from 1872 to 2000, has varied widely in the past. Measured by decades over the past 130 years, it was over 10% in four decades, between 0% and 5% in seven decades and negative in two decades. infor626 Wed, 07 May 2008 18:53:52 GMT http://www.theskilledinvestor.com/ss.category.5/securities-valuation.html How Stock and Bond Markets Value Investment Securities - Personal Investment Management - Financial Articles, Securities market prices provide a forward looking consensus on the value of traded securities. As such, they provide the best available estimate of risk adjusted fair market value. infor626 Wed, 07 May 2008 18:53:52 GMT http://www.theskilledinvestor.com/wp/how-to-lie-with-statistics-investment-performance-charts-113.htm How to lie with statistics: Investment performance charts - A Tip from The Skilled Investor Darrell Huff wrote a short and very informative book, How to Lie infor626 Wed, 07 May 2008 18:53:52 GMT http://www.theskilledinvestor.com/ss.item.261/how-to-lie-with-statistics-investment-performance-charts-part-1.html How to lie with statistics: Investment performance charts (Part 1 of 2) - Financial Advisors, Investment Counselors, and the Financial Industry > Are Your Best Interests the Same as the Financial Services Industry? - Financial Articles, Historical investment performance charts for investment funds might be historically accurate, but their presentation in advertising, on line, and in printed materials can amount to lies from several perspectives. Performance charts are designed to lure gullible individual investors with an implied promise that superior past performance will continue. The financial research literature tells us clearly that on average this is a promise that cannot be kept. In other words, historical performance charts are a veiled lie. They... infor626 Wed, 07 May 2008 18:53:52 GMT http://www.theskilledinvestor.com/ss.item.260/how-to-lie-with-statistics-investment-performance-charts-part-2.html How to lie with statistics: Investment performance charts (Part 2 of 2) - Financial Advisors, Investment Counselors, and the Financial Industry > Are Your Best Interests the Same as the Financial Services Industry? - Financial Articles, The securities industry and many of its brokers and investment advisors know that low cost index strategies are better for individual investors. However, the active management beat the market industry crowd will not make any money off of you, if they tell you that. They have to push the we deliver superior performance mantra, because that is the justification for their excessively high and performance killing fees. Since market realities make it virtually impossible for actively managed funds to consistently beat the ... infor626 Wed, 07 May 2008 18:53:52 GMT