Posts Tagged ‘Investing’

Many people are afraid of investing in stocks, particularly when the markets are bearish – like now. Yet everybody recognize that the best time to buy markets is when they are cheap. Unfortunately, unless you follow the markets on a daily basis – and even so – you never know when to buy a stock. [...]

Funds are my favorite way of building a diversified portfolio. Many people are afraid of funds ’cause they do not know how they work or what their strategy is. There also are so many it becomes a pain to make a choice. In this category I will review will be the ones I personally like [...]

ETFs will typically work like a normal index fund; they invest in a group of stocks, bonds, and other instruments and mimic the performances of the index tracked. These passive investments were created 15 years ago and enjoyed a rising popularity since their inception. Why is that?
Index fund with stock flexibility
ETFs work like stocks; you [...]

Index funds are collective investment scheme – usually mutual funds – whose objective is to closely follow the performance of an index of the financial market. For example, the infamous Vanguard S&P 500 index fund track the S&P 500 largest public companies based in the US (I know, their naming is creative). The fund holds [...]

There are thousands of funds around the globe. All of them doing similar things in many different ways. The fun of the game is to find the fund which will suit your need and objectives; there always is one thing not to forget though: your fund needs to outperform the markets! There’s little value in [...]