Retirement Investment Digest

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After 5-plus years of running this site, there’s a handfull of questions I know newer fund investors are going to ask. I’ve written an article on each topic some time…

You’ve read good things about mutual funds, but for one reason or another you fail to trust your hard earned dollars in them. Perhaps you’re not right in the head!…

77 years ago in October, the big daddy of all stock market crashes took place: 1929 Stock Market Crash. Though it was a time most people would like to forget,…

Many investors have the wrong idea when it comes to choosing mutual funds in their 401(k) plan. Let me save you from a few common 401(k) investing pitfalls….

Stock symbols, or tickers, are a convenient way to track a security. Did you know that certain letters and the number of letters used tells you more about the security?…

Being a collection of many stocks, you may have thought that picking a mutual fund might be easy. Not necessarily… there are over 10,000 mutual funds to choose from. It…

Standard and Poor’s created the S&P 500 O-Strip Index back in 2004. Though it is a shoot off of the S&P 500, it hasn’t been able to beat it in…

Lipper reports that “All major fund groups witnessed positive flows for the month; investors pumped $63.9 billion into the fund business.” As I reported last month, July was all about…

Strangely enough, closed-end funds are more like stocks or ETFs than what most people consider a mutual fund. Discover the difference between closed-end funds and open-end funds….