Odds are, you sold stock-owning mutual funds last year, or at least cut back on putting new money in. As a result, your fund did a whole lot better than you did yourself.
That’s typical of all mutual funds. Their average investors don’t get full value from the funds they own. The reason is simple. You [...]
Posts Tagged ‘market timing’
- You need a new bond-fund plan
- POSTED 03.6.10
It’s a tricky moment for bond-fund investors. The economy is improving. Interest rates and inflation are going to rise, which means that the price of shares in bond mutual funds will fall.
If you’re making new fixed-income investments, these facts suggest that cash is a better place for money right now. Choose a money [...]
- Curb Your enthusiam, part II
- POSTED 03.6.10
Stocks leaped off the bottom, after the market panic passed, and the economy did too. The first two quarters of recovery were unexpectedly strong. Now, however, various leading indicators point to slower growth later in the year and early next year. Not a return to recession but not a boom, either.
That suggests disappointment for stock-fund [...]
