Dear Investor, Why Are You Paying Those Fees?
The Eternal Question: To Pay or Not To Pay Fees? This is basically what Paul asked on How I Beat The Market With My Trades. He mentioned that he owns shares of the popular BMO Monthly Income Fund. While I’ve already analyzed this fund, I wanted to add more thoughts on why you should or [...]
Manager vs. Index Funds: Who Wins
As a Kiplinger’s Personal Finance – Subscription holder, I often find good snippets of information. If you weed through the advice to buy mutual funds then it can be very helpful. Recently there was an article about the actively managed mutual funds versus index funds and a discussion on who wins. Once again, index funds [...]
Why ETF Marketing is Hurting Investors
The one thing that did the most to turn me off of mutual funds was their relentless marketing on how diversified they were. Invest in this mutual fund and you are diversified and safe – is what we often heard. All the while, mutual fund companies were charging enormous fees in the form of high [...]
