Today’s Well Advised column looks at RRSPs and the Future of Mutual Funds, and adviser Preet Banerjee and a new book he’s written entitled simply “RRSPs.’ The book is aimed both at fellow advisors as well as retail investors. With 41 different RRSP strategies and tips, I’d be surprized if some of the content wasn’t an [...]
NEW YORK (Dow Jones/AP) - Gold prices rose Tuesday in choppy trading, struggling to stay positive as the dollar made some headway against the euro.
June gold rose $7.60 to $699.50 an ounce on the New York Mercantile Exchange in midday trading, while July silver rose 16.5 cents to $13.500 an ounce. Even though the dollar [...]
Of course within the mutual fund industry, there are hundreds of choices. There are conservative funds and risky funds, domestic and international funds and funds that are composed of other mutual funds. Mutual Funds Winners & Losers.
Mutual fund managers may have a conflict of interest because of the way they are paid. In particular, mutual fund managers are encouraged to make risky investments that are not in the interests of unit holders, and to over-concentrate their holdings. Mutual fund investors, on the other hand, would tend to benefit from less risky [...]
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 [...]