Tag: Exchange-traded fund
Are So-Called Liquid Alternatives Right for your Portfolio?
Considering that the financial crisis is still going on, many investors are afraid of diversifying their portfolio. Most of them choose to pour their cash into investments that seem safe, namely ETFs and mutual funds. That’s mostly because these offer a great potential for diversification without too much risk involved. Liquid investments are winning more […]
Advantages of Investing in Emerging Markets
Embed from Getty Images Emerging markets are gaining global importance. There are many benefits of adding emerging market equities to a globally diversified investment portfolio. Historical and forward looking evidence provides important justification for investing in emerging market equities. Following the financial crisis of 2008, many investment organizations decided to rethink their investment strategies. They […]
Alternative Investment Based Commodities for Portfolio Hedges
Financial advisors opine that commodities investment involves inherent risk, which paradoxically also, acts as their most exquisite feature when used for strategizing alternative investments. Patrick Robert who is the CEO and co-founder of a financial consulting firm, PKR Investments, says that since how commodities perform is not correlated to fixed income or equities, a certain […]
A Beginner’s Guide to ETFs
ETF stands for exchange-traded fund and they are a sub-section of ETPs or exchange-traded products. ETPs are funds, much like an index or mutual fund in that they contain a basket or bundle of assets. However, unlike index or mutual funds, an exchange traded fund trades on the stock exchanges. In essence, it has the […]
Can You Have More Than One Roth IRA?
A Roth IRA is an investing account where you put your after tax retirement money. This money you invest hopefully grows and produces a positive return. The tax benefits of it are the growth of the money is tax free; unlike a regular investment account in which you must pay taxes on any growth. Roth […]
3 Tips on Making Better Investments
While investing money a majority of people assume that the investment is going to work for them rather than against them. This usually is the case however it also depends on the understanding a person has of his or her particular investment before they invest, to avoid nasty surprises. Here we will discuss some of […]
2 Ways of Investing in Gold That Makes Sense
Everyone agrees regarding one tip in the investment 101 list. First, an investment in gold should be a part of your investment portfolio. Secondly, you can have your investment in gold either in the form of credit Suisse gold or in the form Exchange Traded Funds(ETF’s). Although everyone more or less agrees to this, the […]
4 Tips for the First Time Investor
If I was to give someone my best advice on investing I would tell them not wait for anything. Take whatever amount you have put aside to invest and open an account today. Starting to invest when you have a time frame of forty years is the best move you could ever make. Every year […]
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