Now you can have an even greater impact by donating long - term appreciated securities, including stock,
bonds and mutual funds directly to RCHS.
Not exact matches
Mom
and pop retail investors are exposed to billions of dollars of potential losses through their holdings of Puerto Rican municipal
bonds, either
directly or in
mutual funds.
One thing to keep in mind is that both the Couch Potato
and mutual fund strategies include
bonds, so they shouldn't be compared
directly to an all - stock strategy.
While there are
mutual funds that invest in Treasurys, you may want to avoid
fund expenses
and instead purchase individual Treasury
bonds directly from the government.
I would simplify the conclusion slightly
and say that unless you are buying ONLY Treasury
bonds directly, you should probably just stick with
mutual funds.
For investors looking for alternatives to high fee fixed income
mutual funds, or for those that have been hesitant to invest
directly in
bonds, fixed income ETFs offer a liquid, low cost
and flexible solution.
If every investment adviser could invest
directly in thousands of stocks
and bonds for each customer (
and didn't simply buy inflexible
mutual funds or exchange - traded
funds), we all could apply our own social screens
and excise any company that did not meet our own idiosyncratic standards.
In general, we recommend that clients buy
and hold broadly diversified cash,
bond,
and stock
mutual funds that they purchase
directly from low - cost
mutual fund companies.