In many ways, ETFs are actually even
easier than mutual funds — at least you know what it means when you hit the «buy» button on your trade.
Not exact matches
The behavior gaps are going to be much larger
than they would in similar
mutual funds because ETFs are
easier to jump in and out of.
If this is the case, it's important to understand how variable annuities are different
than mutual funds — it can be
easy to confuse the two.
«Far more money
than before (about $ 9 trillion of assets, which represents about 30 % of total
mutual fund long - term assets) is managed passively in index
funds or ETFs (both of which are very
easy to get out of).
Today, given the option of
easy indexing, investors can get convenient, well - diversified exposure to many more stocks
than would have been in a
mutual fund in 1950, all for 0 %.
Investing in the gold
mutual fund is also
easier than trying to store the actual gold bars...
This ideal is
easier said
than done: for some sceptics the definition of «collaboration» would seem to be «the suppression of
mutual loathing in pursuit of government
funding», when faced with the reality of forced collaboration or reluctant leadership.
While you can do all your business with Scottrade online, including trading stocks, ETFs, buying and selling
mutual funds, transferring money back and forth, and researching, you can also get help from Scottrade in person when necessary because, unlike many other discount brokers who operate entirely online, Scottrade has more
than 500 local branch offices across the country, making getting help with either trading or general question about account much
easier and convenient.
Investing in index
funds can be
easier and more secure if you use exchange traded
funds (ETFs) because these modern investment products come with a tax - friendly structure and provide lower management fees
than many competing options such as traditional
mutual funds Exchange traded
funds (ETFs) are... Read More
Investing in
mutual funds is
easier, less risky, takes less time, and costs less cash
than investing in individual stocks or bonds.
Investing in
mutual funds or ETFs is
easier and less risky
than investing in individual securities.
If you suddenly need money, it's
easier to sell a
mutual fund than it is to pull cash from your home, and you can always pay off your mortgage later with the money you invest now.
Major benefits one can attain from
Mutual funds other
than investing directly are Professional Management, Liquidity, Tax benefits and
Easy Convenience for investors.
Canadian Couch Potato also disagreed about Dynamic's
fund performance and says that picking successful hockey players is much
easier than successful
mutual funds.
CC - I read into that piece an implicit admission that the Canadian market - place is dominated by bank owned brokerages pushing
mutual funds (in a scale the American market - place is not) and it is a much
easier sell to have actively managed portfolios begin to move to some passive investing products rather
than do the hard and long sale of converting actively managed portfolios to passive managed ones lock, stock and barrel - not to mention trying to ease the minds of the gatekeepers, the IA's, who may view Vanguard's entry in a much less positive light
than the blogging community.
Because achieving diversification can be so challenging, some investors may find it
easier to diversify within each asset category through the ownership of
mutual funds rather
than through individual investments from each asset category.
I think
mutual funds, ETFs,
easy to set up online brokerage accounts and real time transactions have opened up investing in public businesses to so many more people
than the 80's and 90's.
• Far more money
than before (about $ 9 trillion of assets, which represents about 30 % of total
mutual fund long - term assets) is managed passively in index
funds or ETFs (both of which are very
easy to get out of).
Mutual fund investors often find that it's
easier to determine the total basis of all their shares
than it is to determine the basis of particular shares.
Scottrade offers more
than 2,600 no - transaction - fee
mutual funds, so it's
easy to avoid paying a commission.