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Mutual Funds: Fund manager to peers: 'We stunk'
Market WatchIf you believe that after last year’s stunning losses, mutual-fund managers are guilty of gross negligence, you have a friend in Bob Rodriguez.
Be Indian, go global with international funds
rediff.comGlobal funds are mutual funds that invest their money in companies located in other countries. They can also invest their money in a particular region, like Asia. They may also choose to invest their money in companies operating in a particular sector like infrastructure.
Topsy-turvy times for mutual funds
CNN MoneyIf you're a mutual fund investor, the damage from the financial crisis is easy enough to measure: The typical blue-chip stock fund, for example, is down 34% over the past year. What may be less obvious to you is the trouble the crisis has caused fund companies - and what that means for your portfolio. After two decades of booming growth, the fund industry is going through its own meltdown. ...
TIP DU JOUR: Read disclosures of mutual funds
Courier-PostMany mutual funds are beginning to charge more to manage money. Rising fund expense ratios are a response to declining markets that have eroded the management revenue that fund companies rely on to cover their own costs.
Chuck Jaffe: Why an investing expert owns 62 mutual funds
Market WatchDon Phillips, a managing director at Morningstar and a recognized figure in the investment business, has 62 mutual funds in his portfolio. That’s no typo. Five dozen -- plus two.
CP market perks up as firms tap mutual funds to reduce costs
Business Standard IndiaThe issuance of commercial papers (CPs) has shot up in the past few months with many big companies tapping mutual funds (MFs), which are flush with funds. The firms wanted to reduce their working capital costs by raising money via CPs issued to these funds.
Manulife Mutual Funds launches index funds
CNW Group via Yahoo! FinanceManulife Mutual Funds, a division of Elliott & Page Limited, announced today it has launched three index funds:
MFC Global awarded $1 billion mandate from MD Funds
Investment ExecutiveMFC Global Investment Management has been selected as investment advisor for MD Dividend Fund, a mutual fund offered by MD Funds Management Inc., of Ottawa.
Don't Write the Obit for Hedge Funds Yet
Morningstar.com via Yahoo! FinanceNew hedge funds and hedgelike mutual funds continue to pop up.
Learn more about tax-saving mutual funds
rediff.comELSS are mutual funds that invest in the stock market and give the tax benefit under Section 80C of the Income Tax Act.