Recent market reversals brought about by the Sub-Prime mortgage melt down is clearly a significant market correcting event. No matter if you work in the risk department of a large bank with many employees or a small fund of funds as co-manager, you share the same basic concerns regarding the management of your portfolio(s)

An IRA is an Individual Retirement Account, which provides either a tax-deferred or a tax-free way of saving for future retirement. There are many varied forms of accounts within the world. Depending on the superb financial goals and situations of each individual, though maybe Long-established IRA and Roth IRA are the more familiar choices.

The benefits of investing in mutual funds are diverse and varies based on the type of mutual funds you invest in. If you are looking for an investment vehicle to save many over the long run, mutual fund investing is a great option. Depending on your risk profile and the type of results you are [...]

The S&P 500 is up about 7.5% thus far this year. That's a good return for just over six months. Will it keep going up? Consider this. The earnings of the S&P 500 companies are expected to grow by about 5% in 2007, according to a leading Wall Street brokerage firm. That [...]

Mutual funds are one of the financial world's most popular investment vehicles, and for good reason.

There's a bright light at the end of the tunnel— finally. Most of the really well respected, long term investors are advising their audiences to hang in there, to stop the panic selling, and to look for the great companies that have withstood the economic downturns of the past.

When you have been awarded a settlement due to arbitration or through the order of a judge as a result of a lawsuit, one of the options open for receiving the award is by accepting structured mutual funds. But is this really a smart way to go? The fact is that it can be an [...]

It's a headline that every stock market investor fears will happen. The markets crash and their hard-earned nest egg evaporates. They're forced to go back to work and must resort to eating beans and rice. Is that fear justified? No.

Since its inception in 1998, the Roth IRA, ("Roth" for its legislative sponsor, the late Senator William Roth, and "IRA" for individual retirement account), has been one of the most popular retirement vehicles in the United States.

If you are fed up with early redemption charges and ever increasing mutual fund management fees on top of bad-performing fund managers, read on. There is a quiet revolution going on in the no-load mutual fund industry and you, the individual investor, may benefit from it greatly.