Investing
Treasury Extended Money Market Funds Guarantee
Last September, shortly after The Reserve Primary Fund broke the buck, the Treasury Department introduced a plan to provide temporary guarantee to money market mutual funds. The original plan was to use $50 billion from the Exchange Stabilization Fund to guarantee principal in money market mutual funds, which by design has the NAV of $1, [...]
Individual Country ETF First Quarter Performances
The first quarter of 2009 is in the books. Thanks to the strong rally in the second half of March, the U.S. stock market ended the month on the positive note, even though it wasn’t enough the pull the market out of the red for the quarter. For the quarter, the S&P 500 Index lost [...]
Are Vanguard Mutual Funds Getting Expensive?
Early this year, I compared performance of actively managed funds in my portfolio against some Vanguard index funds. In addition to the fund returns in 2008, which are all quite different between the two group of funds (four out ten funds beat Vanguard while the other six lagged), another thing I noticed from the comparison [...]
Is S&P 500 Recent Rally Real?
Last weekend, I shared a video from INO which examined the rally of the Dow Jones Industrial Average occurred in the past couple of weeks and concluded that it was just a temporary bounce in a down market.
This week, INO released another educational video for its take on the recent gains of the S&P 500, [...]
Benjamin Graham’s Three Principles of Value Investing
Have you read The Intelligent Investor and Security Analysis by Benjamin Graham? These two books are considered as must read for value investing, but they are all pretty heavy books, especially the Security Analysis. If you just want to grab the essentials of the books, then there’s on article on Forbes about Graham’s three timeless [...]
A Few Options to Invest in Gold
if you are interested in having the bullion in your portfolio, of course.
ETFs
This is probably the easiest way to invest in precious metals, gold and silver. There are some several precious metal ETFs available as I discussed in my previous post. Among them, two are very popular: SPDR Gold Shares (GLD) and iShares Silver Trust [...]
Lending Club Introduces Self-Directed IRA in Peer-to-Peer Lending
Lending Club, the only SEC registered peer-to-peer lending site, today announced the introduction of the first ever self-directed IRA to let lenders save for retirements through P2P lending. The new self-directed IRA accounts are managed by EntrustCAMA, a custodian of both self-directed and real estate IRAs.
Currently, Lending Club self-directed IRA plan participants can choose to [...]
Load up More Third Avenue Real Estate Value (TAREX)
One of the two funds in my mutual fund portfolio that I don’t buy regularly is Third Avenue Estate Value Fund (TAREX), though I have owned this fund for years (the other one is Tocqueville Gold (TGLDX), but I bought TGLDX more often). When I first bought TAREX, the initial minimum investment was something like [...]
Citi Reverse Stock Split: Is It Good for the Stock?
This is a comment left by nt on my post on Citi stock purchase:
I heard that citi group is reverse splitting the shares. Is this good for the investors?
Before talking about what a reverse stock split is, here’s a story of one stock I used to own which did a reverse stock split in the [...]
Is This Rally Real?
Since closing at 6,547.05 on March 9th, the Dow Jones Industrial Average gained back more than 11% in the past 9 trading sessions to recoup some of the losses. The rally was partly fueled by financial stocks after two of the nation’s three largest banks, Bank of America (BAC) and Citigroup (C), made bullish comments [...]
