Best No Load Funds

Vanguard Index Mutual Funds Versus Vanguard Managed Funds

Go to Part 2: Vanguard Mutual Fund Investment Newsletter >>>>>>>
This two-part article:
1) summarizes a recent research report that compared Vanguard’s passively managed index mutual funds with Vanguard’s actively managed mutual funds (The title of this study by Abel Rodriguez and Edward Tower is “Do Vanguard’s Managed Funds Beat Its Index Funds?” provide links to it […]

Dan Wiener’s Vanguard Mutual Fund Investment Newsletter Promotion

<<<<<< Go to Part 1: Vanguard Index Mutual Funds Versus Vanguard Managed Funds
In this second part of this two part article, we:

discuss an email promoting a mutual fund newsletter that some of my clients forwarded to me,
attempt to understand certain rather exceptional investment performance claims for this investment letter,
try to reconcile these performance claims […]

7 Ways to Pick the Best Noload Mutual Funds and ETFs

Scientific Criteria for Selecting the Best Mutual Funds and ETFs
People simply want to invest in what they hope will be the best noload mutual funds and exchange traded funds (ETFs). They want selection criteria that can lead to a higher probability of doing better in the future on both a sustained and risk-adjusted investment fund […]

The Best No Load Mutual Funds and ETFs

How to Select the Top No Load Mutual Funds and ETFs
Given the extremely large number and variety of stock - equity, bond - fixed income, and equity mutual funds and ETFs, investors need a rational basis to select among them. For example, there are over 60,000 different mutual fund investment share classes sold worldwide. Some […]

Avoid Very Small Mutual Funds and ETFs

If you are going to invest in actively managed mutual funds, then these funds need to have a sufficiently large asset base to fund the necessary securities research and analysis.
If an active fund is too small, then fund securities research, analysis, and management quality can suffer or fees could grow. Passively managed index funds and […]

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