Stocks vs. Funds: Which Is Right for You?
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Be careful -- you might be a disastrous fit with individual stocks.
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Is Chattem good enough for your portfolio?
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A word of advice: You should own these stocks.
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So where should I invest my 401(k) money now? Whether stocks and bonds are soaring or plunging, it's probably the most frequent question asked by average folks saving for retirement. There's no correct answer for everyone, of course.
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The Motley Fool - From Spiders to PBJ (the ticker, not the sandwich), the world of exchange-traded funds keeps expanding. If you want the diversification of a mutual fund and the convenience of being able to buy or sell whenever the market is open, you might want to take a look at ETFs.
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Could now be the right time to add some junk to your portfolio?
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Just when you thought there was an ETF for everything, there's an avalanche of new ones on the way. Exchange-traded funds, mutual fund-like baskets of investments that trade like stocks during the day, have been one of the most popular innovations to hit Wall Street in years.
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Are these mutual fund worries reasonable or overblown? A little of both.
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What should an invididual investor when the domestic and foreign stock markets are shaky? One adviser says: Donât try anything fancy.
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Are you overwhelmed by your retirement investing choices?
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Picking a winning stock fund is tricky. Once you've weighed a fund's portfolio, its management, its investment style and its trading habits, you might be tempted to rely on more old-fashioned methods, such as dart boards, Ouija boards and goat entrails instead.
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Yesterday, I asked how an ordinary American investor could hedge against weakness in the dollar.  To clarify, I wasn't thinking of converting stocks or bonds to currency. I keep a certain portion of my portfolio in an interest-bearing account, it's that portion of my portfolio that I'm interested in diversifying.  Anyway, this is something that a fair number of Scripting News readers know something about, and lots of great advice came back in short order. 1. ETFs are stocks traded on the NYSE that track various currencies. It may be the simplest way to diversify cash holdings. 2. HSBC and Everbank have multiple-currency accounts. But watch out for commissions every time you convert from one currency to another. They could wipe out all the gains you may have from holding assets in one currency vs another. 3. Becoming a currency trader may not actually be so hard, and you get the best rates on currency exchange.  4. Paypal lets you store value in a variety of currencies. Thanks everyone for the excellent info!
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Despite perceptions to the contrary, index mutual funds really aren&#39;t all alike. They don&#39;t all invest in the same stocks or bonds, and they certainly don&#39;t all come with the same low expenses.
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Q. I found an article on Yahoo Finance titled, ``Why Mutual Funds Are Lousy Investments: Why the Rich Get Richer." Very interesting. Have you done any columns on this subject -- fund fees -- which you can point me to? You have always recommended mutual funds, especially index funds.
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Q I'm a 64-year-old grandma who messed up bad. My money was in the Vanguard 500 index fund, but in August everything was going south. So I moved my money to a money market account. Now stocks are doing well again, and I have no idea how to get back into the Vanguard 500 without losing a lot of money. ...
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Two isn't always more than one. With mutual funds, whether two managers are better than one depends on the individual fund.
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When it comes to investing, I am old school. Buy a good stock, stick it in the drawer and when you check back years later the stock should be worth more. There's only one problem. When I checked the drawer recently it was full of clunkers, including Lucent , down 94 percent from its 1999 high.