Archive for the ‘stock mutual funds’ Category

How to make money in stock mutual fund market?

The manager of this year’s top stock mutual fund — and only one that’s up in 2008 — explains how to do well in a bear market. Hint: He bought yesterday. How bad is this bear market? Out of thousands of offerings, only one mutual fund focusing on U.S. stocks is up this year. You [...]

Money Market Fund Says Customers Could Lose Money

In a new sign of market turbulence, managers of a multibillion-dollar money market fund said on Tuesday that customers might lose money in the fund, a type of investment that has long been considered as safe and risk-free as a bank savings account.
The announcement was made by the Primary Fund, which had almost $65 billion [...]