i want to saw about mutual funds ?
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What? >< You want to go back in time to research mutual funds? Don't we all.  Please clarify your question.
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Mutual funds are a "basket of stocks" that allow you to have an ownership in a more diversified way. Check out ETF's a newer wrinkle on fund investing.\n\nread education links at bobbrinker.com
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Since you are a beginner and have about $5000, the simplest way is with a mutual fund. \n\nStart at Yahoo, fund screener. \n\nKey in your parameters: $5,000, moringstar rating of 5, turnover less than 100%, expenses less than 1.0% and see what pops up. You will find funds with impressive historical results. Unfortunately, the past is not a great predictor of the future. But this is a good place to start\nOr visit Vanguard.com and key in your investment criteria and they will tell you wich funds they have meet your criteria. \n\nThe link below will show you the results for international stock funds.
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Anytime is a good time to invest in mutual funds, if you take the SIP route.A SIP allos you to benefit from Rupee cost averaging, which means you buy more units when the markets are down & similarly you buy less units when the markets are over-heated.\n\nChoose a good fund based on your risk profile.\nVisit www.valueresearchonline.com to find out the top mutual funds in all categories.\n\nYour fund should be a 4 or a 5 ranker.\n\nAll the best.
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Go to Morningstar.com and look for the fund screener. Set similar parameters for 1, 3, and 5 year returns (say, at least 8%). This will show you funds that have returned at least X% for those time periods. Then you can go through and weed out funds that are closed to new investment, have investment minimums out of your price range, or are simply too volatile (for instance, a fund with 3 and 5 year returns significantly lower than its 1 year return may be something to avoid).
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you can find lots of easy-to-read explanations of mutual funds here: http://finance.yahoo.com/funds/basics\n\nbse sensex refers to the bombay stock exchange, the major trading index for india: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BSE_Sensex\n\nyou can trade for free on the bse sensex here: http://bsesensex.freetradingsystem.net/?OVRAW=BSE_Sensex&OVKEY=bse%20sensex&OVMTC=standard
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To best grow your money you first need to establish the amount of risk your willing to take. Low risk, get into bonds or money market accounts and expect about 5-6% annually. Mutual funds will offer the full range from 5-20% on average, but the more gain means the more lost. For the most aggressive risk (and therefore gain) play in individual stocks, options or on forex (foreign exchange currency market).\n\nThe most important thing is to spread your money around, don't lump all your capital into one or two stocks, because your setting yourself up to take major losses. Educate yourself before jumping into anything. Investopedia.com is a good resource for that - just remember that they are supported by various brokers and agencies, so take recommendations lightly. They do, however, provide good solid information on the basics.
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Morningstar is pretty good, sign up is free and you can compare lots of fund aspects. Dig deeper at yahoo finance for particular funds.
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"A mutual fund is an investment company that pools the savings of many individual investors who share a common financial goal. These investors buy shares of a particular mutual fund that has a defined investment objectives and investment strategies. The price of a mutual fund share is its net asset (total assets less total liabilities) divided by the number of shares outstanding. This figure computed and published daily, is the mutual fund’s Net Asset Value Per Share (NAVPS).\n\nA fund manager invests the resulting asset base in various securities. These securities could range from shares of stocks to debentures to money market instruments, depending on the fund’s stated objectives and risk profile. The income generated from the fund’s investment activity is distributed proportionately among the shareholders, who may redeem their shares any time.\n\n \n\nThus, mutual funds are ideal for investors who do not have the opportunity to invest in highly diversified, professionally managed, baskets of securities at relatively low costs."\n\nIs my principal secure? Can I lose money?\n\nInvesting in mutual funds, like investing in the stock market, involves risk. Any investment that involves risk means that you may lose some of your original investment. However, a mutual fund does several things to control, and contain that risk. First is having the fund managed by a professional manager. A professional fund manager's primary job is to invest the assets of the fund to get the best return for the shareholders. Second, the investments of a mutual fund are diversified, that is, it is invested in many different stocks, thus insulating the fund from a downturn in any one particular stock. While there are risks in mutual fund investing, the returns can be rewarding. Stock market investing over the long term has proven to provide higher returns than traditional investment vehicles.\n________________________________________________\n\nMutual funds or UITF (Unit Investment Trust Fund if the fund manager is a bank) are I believe good investments however currently, with the increase in interest rates, depreciating peso and the losses in the stock market, the mutual fund share values are going down especially the high risk ones.\n\nMy experience: I reinvested my original mutual fund investment to a higher yielding but riskier equity fund in April 19, 2006. At that time the price per share is PhP1,182.00, since then the share prices has gone down which caused me to become a bit jittery.  As of last Friday, June 16, the share price is PhP1,127.00 which means that if I invested PhP1,000,000 I have lost about PhP50,000 as of Friday.  However prior to April 19, 2006, about a month earlier I have realized a gain of about PhP30,000 on the same amount ( and that is for just a month).\n\n I decided to weather the crises, leave my investment intact and wait for future developments.  Advisers have said these mutual funds are for long term investments. I advise you to study the resources below.
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are you looking just for the NAV values (daily price) if so yahoo finance works great for that. you just type in the mutual fund symbol (or search for it). it will save your list in the recent quotes section for future reference. it's how i track my fund values on a regular basis.
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there are mutual funds with small initial investments. $500 for example. Some even less. That is a good way to start. I have included a link through Yahoo finance showing funds of that nature that are rated better than average by Moringstar. Yahoo sometimes does not provide correct information so you need to use this as a starting point and research a little furture. \n\nAnother way is to open an on line brokerage account and buy shares directly in good solid companies that have a good track record and pay dividend that have tended to increase over time, such as BAC, for example. But that is more risky without having at at least 5 and preferably 10 different stocks in your portfolio to reduce the risk of a piece of bad news causing disaster. You also have the option of buying exchange traded index funds. That is an inexpensive method to participate in general market trends. I personally do not like the idea, but a lot of people do.
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The best way to evaluate a mutual fund is through the Sharpe and Treynor ratios.  The higher the numbers the better.  When you come across a fund go to yahoo finance and in the risk section on the left you'll find 3,5,and 10 year sharpe and treynor ratios.  An example of a mutual fund with a high sharpe and treynor ratio is PRLAX or TREMX.  These are emerging market mutual funds and are therefore a bit agressive but the sharpe and treynor take into account not just performance but risk as well.  To get more info on the share and treynor just type them into yahoo search with the word defintion. Do one a time of course.\n\nI hope that helps.
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The advantages of mutual funds:\n\nsome funds specialize in areas that the average investor would have a difficult time investing in, such as stocks of foreign countries and stocks of small cap companies for example. \n\nmutual funds allow for diversification without having to buy a bucket of stocks.  \n\neasy to purchase and sell for the small investor.\n\ndisadvantages:\n\n70% of mutual funds under perform the market in general. Not a great record. \n\nmany mutual funds are bloated. It is difficult to invest a billion dollars.\n\nmutual funds have to declare and pay capital gains once a year on which one will have to pay taxes. If you buy and hold a sound quality stock, that is not the case.
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Try link: \nhttp://www.tribuneindia.com/2002/20020517/biz.htm .\n\nor\n\nhttp://mutualfunds.about.com/od/mutualfundfraud/ .\n\nIt might be of some help.
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Try some of these links:\n\nhttp://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&safe=off&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&oi=defmore&defl=en&q=define:Mutual+fund\nhttp://www.mfea.com/\nhttp://www.guardfamily.org/B06/B0601/A0001_D/glossary/bhs04_glossary.html
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A Mutual Fund is a collective fund pooled by an enterprise from the investors having mutual interest. The fund collections shall be invested by the Fund manager in the stocks traded on the exchange. The type & mode of investment made by the Fund Manager shall be made specific to the investors at the time of collecting the amount from them. There are lot of mutual funds availble in the market like Morgan Stanley ... etc.,. The mutual funds are governed by laws of the respective country.
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Here are some websites that will give you a knowledge of how to invest in mutual funds.