Sentences with phrase «index funds in question»

I'm no tax specialist, but I would add that if the two index funds in question have different fees it can not be said that «a prospective buyer would not have a preference for one as opposed to another.»

Not exact matches

However, his sarcasm does raise a question worth exploring: What should active mutual - fund companies do in response to the current outflows from them and into low - cost indexing and exchange - traded funds?

Quick question: presumably if one chooses the managed fund (lifestrategy / target retirement) route, you could still choose to invest further in individual index funds of your own choosing?

But now that we understand what index funds are, we'll turn our attention in the third installment to the final questions: Where do you find index funds, and how do you choose among them?

There is no quick answer to this question — personally I think low cost index funds are the best choice for most investors and I will illustrate why in the rest of the post.

@nsandersen actually I am looking to invest in pension myself using SIPP and cavendishonline (not sure if you have heard of them, but a lot of people recommend them) and using index funds to invest my pension money in, but this is probably a topic for a separate question

But the question remains: now that foreign content rules are long gone, why don't these funds just move to a traditional structure and buy all the stocks in the index?

My question is about dividends in mutual funds (ETF or index funds) that are outside an RRSP.

The question posed this way isn't helpful to investors in index funds, but for others it may help to determine whether there are stock selection opportunities within the market, especially when compared with previous market declines.

Over on Quora, I was asked to answer the following question: Is there ever a bad time to invest in an index fund, such as the Vanguard 500?

I was asked on Quora to answer a question about hedging against losses... How can one hedge against a significant loss in Vanguard's Total Stock market Index Fund?

Question: Rather than investing in a portfolio of index funds, would I not be better off by simply assembling a collection of well - known individual stocks that have a history of increasing their... Read More

In this case, we'll go back to the index fund question and evaluate whether this passive investing approach can still beat the market.

I'm not sure such expertise exists at all — and given that the fund in question under - performed a vanilla bond index when managed by the so - called professionals, I'm highly skeptical that if such expertise does exist that a small firm like WS will suddenly possess it in - house... and Eric Kirzner has been there since the beginning, which I should stop ranting about in the footnote.

It's kind of a newbie question but I was preparing to invest in index funds (low - cost index funds) for a while now and I am just thinking what should my strategy look like.

So for example, if you're considering using an S&P 500 index fund in your 401 (k), rather than wondering whether or not that would count as stock picking, you can instead try to directly address the important questions:

Also, comment # 5's question about alternative energy funds makes a good point about how even index funds can result in poor diversification.

Asking whether or not index funds are better is the wrong question in my opinion.

... or you can just do what Warren Buffett suggested at his most recent Annual General Meeting in Omaha (in response to a question by Tim Ferris of «4 hour workweek» fame): «Invest your money in a low - cost index fund... then «forget about it» and get back to work!»

There is a lot built into your question of pay off mortgage vs. invest in index funds.

Index mutual funds trounced actively managed mutual funds last year by the widest margin in 15 years, once again raising the confounding question: Why do so many individuals gravitate to actively managed funds when they are a proven loser?

My question for Ramit and the rest of you is what other index funds would you recommend for someone in my shoes?

This weekend my mother asked me the same question, as I'm finally getting around to helping her get her finances in order, suggesting that she move everything to a few index funds at Vanguard.

It would appear the answer to your question «Can you Really earn 13 % Annual Returns These Days!?!» is a resounding NO!?! Unless you invested in a low cost index fund during this period of time.

That leads to a more practical question, considering that MoneySense has recommended cap - weighted index funds in our Couch Potato portfolios for over a decade.

If the stock in question has done well and outperformed the average of the total U.S. market, the next thing I'll do is compare it to a low - cost index fund in its respective sector.

There are two parts to your question: (1) Should I put the money in an index fund?

Whether I would invest in a tweaked index fund that considered a factor like momentum is a different question.

VWO, which is in the midst of changing its holdings to an index designed by FTSE, now has an expense ratio of 0.18 percent, or $ 18 for each $ 10,000 invested, a 10 percent drop from 0.20 percent previously, according to a mandatory regulatory filing that must be submitted to the SEC no more than 120 days after the Oct. 31, 2012 fiscal year - end for the funds in question.

Recently, we received a question from a client that we will paraphrase as follows: «While I know that the returns I have gotten from index funds have beaten the majority of active managers, would I not have been better off in funds like the Fairholme Fund (FAIRX) or the... Read More

«This appeal raises a narrow and highly specific question — whether an options exchange, by creating, listing, and facilitating the trading of options on shares in an exchange traded fund («ETF») designed to track a proprietary market index, misappropriates intellectual - property rights of the creator of the index.»

The question may arise: why invest in an Index or basket of funds instead of individual stocks?