Money and Finance
- If Investors Could Know Only One Thing About Greed And Fear...
From Seth Klarman: Fear of missing out, of course, is not fear at all but unbridled greed. The key is to hold your emotions in check with reason, something few are able to do. The markets are often a tease, falsely reinforcing one’s confidence as prices...
- The Dividend-fund Dilemma - By Jason Zweig
Sooner or later, the markets always punish investors who do the right thing for the wrong reason. Some investors in dividend-oriented stock funds might end up learning that lesson the hard way. So far this year, $9 billion has gone into mutual funds and...
- Chaos Over A Plunging Note
Regulators are examining volatile trading in a complex exchange-traded note that caused it to lose 60% of its value in the past week. The Securities and Exchange Commission is looking into the VelocityShares 2x Long VIX Short Term Exchange note, managed...
- First Eagle Reopens Two Mutual Funds
First Eagle joins Longleaf and Third Avenue in opening previously closed funds recently.-Arnhold and S. Bleichroeder Advisers said on Tuesday it will reopen two of its First Eagle mutual funds that invest in overseas markets.-The $21 billion First Eagle...
- Investing In Actively Managed Funds
I've been reading a couple of Finance blogs mostly by Singaporeans, and I noticed that one of them (name shall not be mentioned) has chosen to invest with OCBC Blue Chip Investment Plan (BCIP) I did also talk about OCBC BCIP on a previous blogpost, http://teenageinvesting.blogspot.sg/2014/08/the-beginning-of-your-investment.html...
Money and Finance
The Intelligent Investor: Going Dutch — Could Fee Hurdles Come Down Everywhere? - By Jason Zweig
With markets in turmoil, investors need good advice even more than usual. But investing advice remains confusing, costly and opaque—and that needs to change.
New rules in the U.K., the Netherlands and Australia show one drastic way to tackle the problem. Starting this coming week, commissions on popular investments like mutual funds will be banned in Australia. Later this year, the Dutch government will finalize a law that will ban commissions as of Jan. 1, 2014. A similar prohibition already went into force in Britain as of Dec. 31, 2012.
These changes provide a glimpse of one possible future for U.S. investors: a market in which “what the adviser gets paid is no longer linked to which product the adviser sells to the client,” as Mark Wiedman, global head of iShares, the largest manager of exchange-traded funds, puts it.
- If Investors Could Know Only One Thing About Greed And Fear...
From Seth Klarman: Fear of missing out, of course, is not fear at all but unbridled greed. The key is to hold your emotions in check with reason, something few are able to do. The markets are often a tease, falsely reinforcing one’s confidence as prices...
- The Dividend-fund Dilemma - By Jason Zweig
Sooner or later, the markets always punish investors who do the right thing for the wrong reason. Some investors in dividend-oriented stock funds might end up learning that lesson the hard way. So far this year, $9 billion has gone into mutual funds and...
- Chaos Over A Plunging Note
Regulators are examining volatile trading in a complex exchange-traded note that caused it to lose 60% of its value in the past week. The Securities and Exchange Commission is looking into the VelocityShares 2x Long VIX Short Term Exchange note, managed...
- First Eagle Reopens Two Mutual Funds
First Eagle joins Longleaf and Third Avenue in opening previously closed funds recently.-Arnhold and S. Bleichroeder Advisers said on Tuesday it will reopen two of its First Eagle mutual funds that invest in overseas markets.-The $21 billion First Eagle...
- Investing In Actively Managed Funds
I've been reading a couple of Finance blogs mostly by Singaporeans, and I noticed that one of them (name shall not be mentioned) has chosen to invest with OCBC Blue Chip Investment Plan (BCIP) I did also talk about OCBC BCIP on a previous blogpost, http://teenageinvesting.blogspot.sg/2014/08/the-beginning-of-your-investment.html...