Investing
Stay Local, Trade Global
Interested in trading stocks listed on London Stock Exchange or Tokyo Stock Exchange, but don’t have an account with them due to regulatory restrictions?
So far US investors who want to access global markets can mainly invest through mutual funds offered by the domestic financial industry or individual stocks (ADRs or American Depositary Receipts) listed [...]
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Firstrade to Start Charging Fees for Mutual Fund Investments
I got this email from Firstrade today, but somehow the date of the message shows February 7, 2007. While the message began with an exciting tone by saying “We are pleased to announce that Firstrade now offers over 10,000 mutual funds,” What it really wants to tell me, as well as all other investors [...]
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Model Portfolios Built with ETFs (I) — Couch Potato Portfolio
Last month, Jonathan at MyMoneyBlog ran a series on model portfolios which covered some (so far six) popular portfolios based on various investment philosophies. When these model portfolios were originally developed (some are more than thirty years old), the main investment vehicles were mutual funds, where were apparently the only choices at that time. [...]
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Planned Investments: ShareBuilder, SogoInvest, and MyStockFund
The first planned investment service I have heard of and used was ShareBuilder, which was also the only brokerage other than Scottrade I used back in March 2006. The reasons I decided to open an ShareBuilder account (eventually, I got three of them for both me and my wife) were:
Promotion bonuses: I collected a total [...]
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Know Who’s Whispering What before Earning Release
Before a company releases its earning, financial research firms such as Thomson/FirstCall and Reuters survey fund managers and stock analysts to predict what the earning will look like. Stock prices usually move after the earning release, with magnitude depending on the outlook and how far away the true earning is different from consensus estimates. However, [...]
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