Be wary with target-date funds


Target-date mutual funds are supposed to simplify investment planning by automatically dialing down risk as you approach the day when you can finally call yourself retired.

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MFC Global awarded $1 billion mandate from MD Funds

Investment Executive

MFC Global Investment Management has been selected as investment advisor for MD Dividend Fund, a mutual fund offered by MD Funds Management Inc., of Ottawa.

 

Watch out for rising expenses in mutual funds

The Scranton Times-Tribune

BOSTON — Where are the incentives to invest? These days, automakers are slashing thousands off sticker prices and offering zero percent financing to win over recession-weary consumers. So why not mutual fund companies?

 

SEC chief opposes creation of a mutual funds watchdog

Houston Chronicle

The head of the Securities and Exchange Commission objects to a plan to create a mutal funds watchdog.

 

Mutual Fund Ratings: Are They Deceiving?

Investopedia

Mutual funds have provided a wide variety of investment styles and strategies for many years. In fact, the number of mutual funds has almost eclipsed the actual number of stocks traded in the stock market.

 

Mutual funds can build your retirement corpus

The Times of India

The jury may still be out on the recently-introduced New Pension Scheme. However, what one can’t deny is that it has generated a lot of interest among people about retirement planning—especially among those employed in the private sector without a pension cover for retirement.

 

Manulife Mutual Funds announces Lipper Award Winners

CNW Group via Yahoo! Finance

Manulife Mutual Funds is proud to announce that four of its mutual funds have been recognized for excellence in the investment industry at the 2009 Lipper Fund Awards.

 

Investor's Corner: Tap Into Best Funds' Research Expertise

Investor's Business Daily via Yahoo! News

Certain mutual funds are often among the major shareholders in stocks that make dramatic gains.

 

Chuck Jaffe: Time to revisit what you pay for mutual funds

Market Watch

These days, mutual-fund costs are annoyingly higher, and investors who haven’t looked for awhile may want to check the expense ratio to make sure the charges they face are still acceptable.

 

Funds weed out firms linked to human-rights violations

The Star-Ledger

The financial disclosures investors get in the mail from mutual fund companies don't normally capture Nancy Prindle's attention. Then again, the dry brochures rarely delve into anything as gripping as the bloodshed in Sudan's Darfur region -- a topic that...

 

Investment behaviour of funds differs around polls

The Hindu

Research Bureau The current economic and political state of affairs may be different from those of 2004, but the investment behaviour of foreign institutional investors and domestic mutual funds remains the same in the run-up to elections.