Mutual Funds Weigh Post-Election Options (Investor's Business Daily)
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Investor's Business Daily - With the votes counted, mutual fund managers are beginning to see which of their pre-election predictions are paying off.
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Investor's Business Daily - When the U.S. began slowing last year some analysts began hoping for a trade-off.
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Investors cheered President George W. Bush&#39;s re-election yesterday, but analysts caution that when the cheering stops, investors might refocus on real problems that could still hold back the economy and stocks.
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Investors in the market for mutual funds may want to consider a promising alternative: shares of asset management companies that sell the funds.
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Investor's Business Daily - The ABC News/Washington Post Consumer Comfort Index shot up 5 points over the last week to -7, the best in several weeks. Some 39% of respondents said now&#39;s a good time to buy, a big rise from 33% last week. Americans also were more upbeat about the economy and their own finances. Gasoline prices, which have fallen back below $3 a gallon, likely are a big factor.
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Investor's Business Daily - The best friend for mutual fund investors might very well be father time.
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Investor's Business Daily - At a time when rapid growth in hedge funds might suggest that their mutual fund counterparts -- long-short funds -- would also prove popular, few investors seem to have much appetite for mutual funds they can sell short.
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Investor's Business Daily - Q2 prices rose 3.2% vs. a year ago, the slowest rise in a decade, the Office of Federal Housing Enterprise Oversight said. Price gains could turn into declines, as they have in other measures, and are taking a toll on broader economic growth. The S&amp;P/Case-Shiller index on Tue. showed Q2 home prices down 3.2% vs. a year earlier. OFHEO prices don&#39;t include homes with jumbo or subprime loans, two of the more vulnerable segments of the mortgage market. Weakness is expected to continue into &#39;08.
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Investor's Business Daily - Dividend yields from U.S. diversified stock funds have been rising since 2003. That reverses a long trend of shrinking payouts.
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Investor's Business Daily - Fidelity Investment's shakeup in the organization of its mutual funds, begun 18 months ago, appears to be yielding results for the industry leader.
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Investor's Business Daily - The Business Roundtable&#39;s CEO Economic Outlook Index fell 3 points to 81.9 in May amid high energy prices and the housing slump. But that&#39;s still well-above the boom-bust line of 50. Most executives expect sales, capital spending and hiring to be flat or rise in the coming months. &quot;While the survey does suggest that the economy is settling into a softer consolidation phase, as long as consumers keep spending, the economy can continue to move ahead,&quot; said Harold McGraw, the group&#39;s chairman.
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Investor's Business Daily - Foreign Threats: While we fret over our 401(k)s and whose fault it is that we bought houses we couldn't afford, the once-hibernating Russian bear is awake and up to some mischief.
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Investor's Business Daily - Mutual funds have been a strong force in the investment world, with their assets mushrooming from $135 billion at the end of 1980 to $10 trillion at year-end 2006.
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Investor's Business Daily - As tamer-than-expected inflation and the Democrats' retaking of Congress vied for investor attention in November, U.S. stock mutual funds notched another monthly gain.
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Investor's Business Daily - In recent weeks, even when the rest of the market has lagged, REIT funds generally have outperformed.
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Investor's Business Daily - Despite a year of negative headlines, the investing public doesn't understand the mutual fund scandal, couldn't care less and hasn't lost much confidence in the fund families where they invest, says a new study released this week.
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Investor's Business Daily - U.S. diversified stock funds on average fell 0.37% in December. They fell 3.08% in the fourth quarter following a 0.93% gain in third quarter, according to Lipper Inc. That left them up 6.32% for the year.