COVER ARTICLE The Individual Investor’s Guide to the Top Mutual Funds 2019 By AAII Staff Our annual mutual fund guide provides information and performance statistics on 727 funds. NOTES & OPINIONS Dispatches Current news items of interest to individual investors. Majority of Retirees Regret Not Saving More for Retirement Older Workers Investing More in…
In observation of the Christmas and New Year holidays, the next two Weekly Digest emails will go out on Wednesday, December 26, 2018, and Wednesday, January 2, 2019. Happy holidays! The Top Mutual Funds Over Five Years: Tech Takeover Technology funds lead this year’s list of the top funds, though two non-sector funds are also…
This week’s AAII Weekly Digest highlights these “must-read” AAII articles: You Can Judge a Fund by Its Volatility Unlike returns, fund volatility can be persistent. Actively managed funds with high levels of volatility (as measured by the variance in returns) are likely to stay highly volatile. Actively managed funds with low volatility are likely…
The new tax law provides a few incentives for taking advantage of Roth IRAs and similar types of retirement accounts. It also preserves the contribution limits in effect prior to this year for both tax-deferred and aftertax accounts. Roth IRA conversions, however, can no longer be undone. I bring this up now because you currently…
This week’s AAII Weekly Digest highlights these “must-read” AAII articles: Achieving Greater Long-Term Wealth Through Index Funds John “Jack” Bogle, founder of the Vanguard Group of mutual funds, chats with AAII Journal editor Charles Rotblut about why he favors broad market index funds, as well as his thoughts about exchange-traded funds and portfolio allocations….
Here are the most-read AAII Blog posts for 2017: When to Sell and Nail Down Your Profits—While You Still Have Them When you go through a complete market cycle, your real objective is to nail down as much of the profits you’ve built as possible. Proven sell rules to follow so you can keep…
In mutual fund investing there are no immutable laws to guide us, as we have in physics. But then again, it’s not professional wrestling either. Some of what follows distills the collective experience of mutual fund investing; some of it has empirical evidence pointing its way. But most is simply common sense that investors often…
Performance statistics are probably the single most scrutinized feature of any mutual fund. These figures are, of course, important indicators of how well a portfolio manager has performed in the past. As such, they can serve as useful flags of a possibly good manager or a possibly bad manager. But the question facing any prospective…
In mutual fund investing there are no immutable laws to guide us, as we have in physics. But then again, it’s not professional wrestling either. Some of what follows distills the collective experience of mutual fund investing; some of it has empirical evidence pointing its way. But most is simply common sense that investors often…
This week’s AAII Weekly Digest highlights these “must-read” AAII articles: Tracking the S&P 500 With Mutual Funds and ETFs There are more than 40 mutual funds and exchange-traded funds (ETFs) widely available to investors that explicitly list the S&P 500 in their name. These funds track the large-cap index or follow a strategy based…
