Posted March 26th, 2009
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Intrepyd asked:
If mutual funds use most of the capital gains and dividends of their portfolios to make distributions to investors, why does the fund’s net asset value (NAV) increase over time? It seems that distributing these gains would cause the NAV to remain steady, or to decrease.
Tags: Distributions, Investors, Portfolios
Posted in Investing | 2 Comments »
Posted February 16th, 2009
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Baby Z asked:
If the mutual funds are not designed to generate better returns for investors, who do not want to mess up with the stock markets, why should the MFs be allowed to collect public money? If their fund managers are there to say, “fund value is down because the market is down,” what credibility rests with them to be placed as fund managers?
Tags: Credibility, Investors, Public Money
Posted in Investing | 4 Comments »
Posted February 13th, 2009
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rainfingers asked:
The commentary I’ve read says that stocks have a bad day when investors are afraid that interest rates will go up. But rising interest rates make bonds go down too! Is the historical advice–stocks and bonds move in opposite directions–no longer valid? Or is this just a temporary anomaly?
Tags: Directions, Investors, Same Direction
Posted in Investing | 4 Comments »
Posted January 29th, 2009
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Miss Yahoo asked: I heard that the housing market being low in sales and with the forclousure market crashing, it is affecting investors so much that they are moving money out of equities (stocks) and investing more in safer investments. Thats why the stock market has been down so much in the past week.
How does this happen? I was reading about it, but I didn’t really understand. Are investors pulling out their stocks from big lenders? How exactly does it affect the stock market? I need help understanding it in normal terms that make sense.
Please advise, thank you!!
Tags: Investors, Lenders, Money
Posted in Investing | 8 Comments »
