Not exact matches
While
investors may look at PPSC as simply a high - beta play on the S&P 600, remember that the
fund rebalances its exposure daily, meaning that over longer holding periods, it may deviate from expected
returns due to compounding effects.
Exchange - Traded
Funds Leveraged ETFs: Multiplying by the Unknown The
returns realized by an
investor will be below what these ETFs» names suggest
due to the decay in realized leverage over time.
On surface, this may cause concerns
to some
investors if the
fund is only judged by its
return because OAKBX could appear
to be lagging S&P 500 Index
due to the value approach and the large investment in fixed income equities.
Furthermore, most
investors don't earn the same
returns as the market,
due to a combination of fees (commissions, mutual
fund MERs and portfolio management fees) and poor market timing (buying high and selling low).
That means all the bonds in the
fund will come
due in the same year, and once they're redeemed, the
fund will be liquidated and all the money
returned to investors.
More
investors suffer big losses in
returns due to a lack of discipline, asset allocation, and not being in high quality
funds for longer than 5 years.
Hedge
Fund Solutions, which produces The Official Activist Investing Blog, recently announced the launch of a new investment research product, Catalyst Investment Research, which is «dedicated
to uncovering undervalued publicly traded companies that could have the potential
to generate outsized
returns due to an activist
investor's involvement.»
In fact, the
investor lost out in over $ 16,000 of potential
returns in the other two
funds due to the high loads and fees.
Many studies have shown that
investors don't earn anywhere near market
returns due to two reasons: expenses (the many layers of financial help we pay for) and emotions (selling GICs
to buy mutual
funds that could make you 15 % in your example).
The most common
due diligence process is one that provides a list of metrics, including — but not limited
to — expense ratio, excess
return, and assets under management, and then requires
investors to pick through those metrics
to determine whether the index
fund is any good.
The dealers will also need
to show investment
returns, something that is difficult for
investors to calculate on their own
due to dividend and interest payments,
fund distributions and cash flows in and out of accounts.
This favours
investors with a high sum assured, and low initial charges, promising higher
returns due to investment in
funds.
J.J.Smith: Institutional
investors, including sovereign wealth
funds and pension
funds, remain interested in the student housing sector
due to their ability
to achieve higher
returns than they otherwise would through conventional multifamily housing — provided they're able
to find the right opportunities in the right markets with operators who understand the nuances of the business.