Accumulating wealth is like building The Great Wall, one brick at a time
Category: InvestingBy Sun on May 2, 2008 in Mutual fund, Investing | 1 Comment
Micro-cap fund specialist Washtch Advisors today announced that it will temporarily reopen two micro-cap funds, Wasatch International Opportunities Fund (WAIOX)
Wasatch Micro Cap Value Fund (WAMVX), to all investors. Unlike other funds that were recently reopened, these two funds seem never available to individual investors because they were both closed on the day when they […]
By Sun on May 1, 2008 in Brokerage, Investing | 0 Comments
Since I began to actively use my Zecco account to trade stocks in March, I got myself a task that I don’t want: find a place to store the mail Zecco sent me every time I made a trade. It’s not really a piece of junk mail that I can just throw away, but close […]
By Sun on Apr 25, 2008 in Alternative, Investing | 2 Comments
A little over one year ago, I bought a Buffalo gold coin from Bullion Direct when the price was around $640 an ounce. Somehow, I never considered that as an investment, though gold has gained a lot in the past year. Currently at $885, gold actually made a good investment
Since then, I have […]
By Sun on Apr 22, 2008 in ETF, Investing | 2 Comments
Today, April 22nd, is Earth Day and one of the topic being discussed is how to live a green life and save our environment. On this year’s Earth Day, the government also announced a plan to boost fuel efficiency by 25%, increasing per gallon mileage from 27.5 to 35.7, on the same day when the […]
By Sun on Apr 21, 2008 in Stock, Investing | 6 Comments
In his book, A Random Walk Down Wall Street, author Burton Malkiel declared that
A blindfolded monkey throwing darts at a newspaper’s financial pages could select a portfolio that would do just as well as one carefully selected by the experts.
Do you believe random walk? Or do you follow your own research? Or maybe experts […]
By Sun on Apr 15, 2008 in ETF, Investing | 3 Comments
Less than a month after Bear Stearns became the first firm ever to offer actively managed exchange-traded fund (ETF), PowerShares, an major player in the ETF arena, introduced its own active ETFs last Friday. The four new ETFs, including both equity and fixed income funds, are:
PowerShares Active AlphaQ Fund (PQY)
PowerShares Active Alpha Multi-Cap Fund (PQZ)
PowerShares […]
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