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I own last year's top-performing funds. Unfortunately, I bought them this year. -- Anonymous It was another good year for index funds in 2011. In March, the S&P published its 10th Annual Mutual Fund Performance Report. According to the report ...
May 27, 2012 at 10:46 | Source: Lowell Sun
Before you invest in a passively managed fund thinking that it is an index fund and will mimic its benchmark index, step back and pause. Similarly, not all schemes with names consisting “Sensex” or “Nifty” are index funds. Read the offer document ...
May 20, 2012 at 15:27 | Source: Livemint.com
The S&P GSCI index fell 1.4 percent last week and is down 9.4 percent ... Investors pulled $1.18 billion from commodity funds in the week ended May 23, the fifth consecutive drop and the most this year, according to Brad Durham, a managing ...
May 27, 2012 at 19:14 | Source: Bloomberg
Chesapeake Energy’s meltdown has crippled its share price and that of a subsidiary. It’s a case study in how risky it can be to invest in one stock. It also shows how energy exchange-traded funds can help blunt the effects of one company’s ...
May 15, 2012 at 06:57 | Source: Philadelphia Daily News
Seriously. Eight. That's the single most important statistic you need to know when thinking about mutual funds, since any investor can buy an S&P 500 index fund and mimic the benchmark. It's also important to know why so many mutual funds fail ...
May 25, 2012 at 16:54 | Source: Motley Fool
Hedge funds lost 0.44% in April, according to the Barclay Hedge Fund Index compiled by BarclayHedge. The Index remains up 5.05% year-to-date. “Equity markets in the US, Europe, and Japan traded lower on the month, giving back some of their Q1 ...
May 22, 2012 at 05:09 | Source: Hedge Week.com
And it does so in numbers. By January of this year, the trade against the London Whale was not going well for the hedge funds. The price of the index, as well as others, was still falling, and the losses were mounting for Mr. Weinstein and the others.
May 26, 2012 at 17:43 | Source: New York Times
Actively managed equity funds Stock index funds Stock ETFs All bond funds (both conventional funds and ETFs) Within each of the five categories, it grouped funds into quartiles based on their annual expense ratios and calculated the net cash ...
May 17, 2012 at 11:05 | Source: CBS News
Equity funds posted a net outflow of $4.6 billion in the latest week during which the Standard & Poor's 500 - the U.S. benchmark stock index - booked a loss of 0.45 percent. Excluding ETFs, which are anecdotally considered to represent ...
May 24, 2012 at 22:53 | Source: Reuters UK
Some key findings from the report include: Hedge funds, as measured by the Dow Jones Credit Suisse Hedge Fund Index, finished April down 0.04%, with 4 out of 10 strategies in positive territory; In total, the industry saw estimated outflows of ...
May 23, 2012 at 15:44 | Source: Marketwatch