What Warren Buffet’s Comments About Future Returns Really Means
He says it throughout his annual report. In the section titled, Fanciful Figures – How Public Companies Juice Earnings he talks at great depth about the low likelihood that we are going to see the same gains we saw in the 20th century. He states a 5.3% compound return for the period. Yeah, that is [...]
Go Ahead and Buy High Load Mutual Funds…
…if you want to ensure that you underperform the market for the rest of your life. Ok, I am being a bit dramatic here but a recent article by George Mannes at Money.com really had me intrigued. It was based on a question from a reader that went like this: I have invested in no-load [...]
Top 8 “Other” Ways to Save Money on Your Investments
As readers of investing and finance blogs, you have probably heard of the cardinal rules for saving money when managing your investment portfolio. These rules include such things as keeping buying and selling of securities to a minimum to reduce transaction costs, only buying low cost mutual funds or index funds, and not buying load [...]
Impacts of Investing in the Most Profitable Sector of the S & P – Financial Services
First off, before we get into today’s post, thanks to Credit Card Lowdown for posting this week’s Carnival of Money, Growth and Happiness. There is an interesting “thought piece” over at the Money.com site that has a number of experts presenting their thoughts on what the future has in store for us. From a purely [...]
Insane Mutual Fund Fees
I was reading the latest edition of Canadian Moneysaver, which is a great magazine that is Canadian focused but would be of value to any type of investor from any country as it touches on many key investment and personal finance topics. In one of the sidebar boxes, they had a blurb about the fees [...]
