The Motley Fool

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

That option is an exchange-traded fund (ETF). ETFs are similar to mutual funds but they are more accessible to the average investor and they trade more like stocks. The ETF's return closely follows the returns of the index (less the management fees the ETF changes).

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The Motley Fool

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

Interval funds are closed-end investment companies that might appeal to investors looking for different ways to diversify their portfolio by providing access and exposure to illiquid strategies or alternative assets. In addition, you can purchase shares in an interval fund on a daily basis at NAV, similar to an open-end mutual fund.

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The Motley Fool

DECEMBER 5, 2024

Mutual funds aren't what they used to be Asset manager T. Rowe Price is one of the largest sponsors of mutual funds. On the bad side of the ledger, exchange-traded funds (ETFs) are displacing mutual funds as the primary tool of small and large investors alike. The big outcome for T.

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The Motley Fool

MAY 22, 2024

Rowe Price given that the company operates one of the largest mutual fund families on Wall Street. But the real key is that customers don't like to move from one asset manager to another, which makes the assets under management (AUM) at T. It also offers other financial services. Rowe Price fairly sticky.

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The Motley Fool

DECEMBER 20, 2023

The S&P 500 checks off a lot of boxes at once Various financial institutions put together their own S&P 500 funds to mirror the index. Some of these are mutual funds. Others are exchange-traded funds (ETFs). Its annual management fee is a miniscule 0.03%. Consumer discretionary 10.7% Financials 12.9%

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The Motley Fool

FEBRUARY 25, 2024

Many investment types charge management fees or investment minimums. Mutual funds impose both; many CDs and bonds require investors to deposit $500 or more. Fees eat into returns -- doubly so when you only have a bit of savings to invest. Out of the two, robo-advisors charge lower fees.

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The Motley Fool

JANUARY 21, 2024

Four of the 11 funds stand head and shoulders over the rest with far more trading action and larger Bitcoin portfolios under management one week later. Each fund offers a unique spin on the idea of Bitcoin-based ETFs. million 1.5% (No introductory fee waiver) iShares Bitcoin Trust (NASDAQ: IBIT) $698 million 22.4

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The Big Picture

DECEMBER 4, 2024

But suddenly they find themselves sitting on an uncomfortably large percentage of their portfolio in a single name. I’m Barry Ritholtz and on today’s edition of at the money we’re going to discuss how to manage concentrated equity positions with an eye towards diversification and managing big capital gains taxes.

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The Motley Fool

JULY 16, 2024

Consider some exchange-traded funds (ETFs) that track the performance of a robust market index. These index ETFs come with the superpowers of reliable performance, low management fees, and solid dividend payments. Those ultralow fees make a big difference in the long run.

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The Motley Fool

JUNE 21, 2023

Fees One of the biggest factors to consider when evaluating a 401(k) plan is the fees that are associated with it. Many plans charge high fees that eat into your returns over time. These can include administrative fees, management fees, and expense ratios.

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The Motley Fool

JANUARY 12, 2024

Most of these funds are entirely new investment vehicles created from whole cloth after the SEC's long-awaited approval. For instance, the Grayscale Bitcoin Trust was founded in 2013, managing its Bitcoin holdings under a mutual fund structure for more than a decade. Others have been around for a while.

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The Motley Fool

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Their day-to-day and minute-by-minute price moves should be identical for all intents and purposes, apart from their varied management fees. The Grayscale ETF used to be the only Bitcoin-owning mutual fund before the SEC approved its ETF conversion. It's a lot like trading ordinary stocks.

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The Motley Fool

OCTOBER 11, 2024

Stock Advisor provides investors with an easy-to-follow blueprint for success, including guidance on building a portfolio, regular updates from analysts, and two new stock picks each month. The combination triples infrastructure AUM and doubles private markets run-rate management fees. Our partnership with Microsoft and MGX.

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The Motley Fool

MAY 7, 2024

There's a lot of investment income that's embedded in the portfolio that we haven't seen yet. I like what they're doing in their investment portfolio. Not a giant portion of their portfolio, but a lot and I love the management team, they're the only pure-play in specialty insurance in the space, and they have about a 1.1%

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The Motley Fool

MARCH 20, 2024

Stock Advisor provides investors with an easy-to-follow blueprint for success, including guidance on building a portfolio, regular updates from analysts, and two new stock picks each month. The products are primarily low risk money market funds and, to a lesser extent, fixed-income mutual funds.

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ClearMoney

DECEMBER 5, 2021

Given bitcoin’s dramatic price changes, it is not surprising that many are speculating about its possible role in a portfolio. Adding it to a portfolio could mean paring back the allocation to investments such as stocks, property, or fixed income. Assessing the merits of bitcoin as an investment can be problematic.

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The Motley Fool

APRIL 29, 2024

Stock Advisor provides investors with an easy-to-follow blueprint for success, including guidance on building a portfolio, regular updates from analysts, and two new stock picks each month. Bitcoin ETPs also benefit from this, offset by the management fees that are charged for those products.

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ClearMoney

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

You’re much more likely to “lose it all” with concentrated investments than with a well-diversified portfolio. French, “Luck versus Skill in the Cross-Section of Mutual Fund Returns,” Journal of Finance 65, no. CANADA: These materials have been prepared by Dimensional Fund Advisors Canada ULC. Fama and Kenneth R.

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Sara Grillo

APRIL 11, 2022

We’re going to talk about how he provides high value as an hourly financial advisor by saving investors from the “Humpty Dumpty portfolio” and the lessons other advisors can learn about serving clients with simplicity, transparency, and integrity, whether they choose to adopt the hourly fee model or not.

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ClearMoney

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

As with many things in life, the truth is somewhere between the extremes: While both simulated and real-world data suggest momentum may not be suitable as a driver of long-term asset allocations, we believe momentum considerations can be integrated in a cost-effective way to help inform daily portfolio management decisions.

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The Motley Fool

AUGUST 2, 2024

Stock Advisor provides investors with an easy-to-follow blueprint for success, including guidance on building a portfolio, regular updates from analysts, and two new stock picks each month. Additionally, higher incentive and transaction fees resulted in an increase in other related revenues. Institutional outflows of $8.9

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ClearMoney

DECEMBER 14, 2021

Investor adoption in fixed income has lagged, at least when measured by the assets under management (AUM) in mutual funds and ETFs. trillion in equity fund AUM1 was categorized as strategic beta by Morningstar. billion of fixed income funds had the same designation. At the end of 2020, $1.35 By contrast, just $14.36

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The Motley Fool

JANUARY 12, 2024

Stock Advisor provides investors with an easy-to-follow blueprint for success, including guidance on building a portfolio, regular updates from analysts, and two new stock picks each month. At BlackRock, our business is to serve clients with excellence and help them design portfolios for the future. They deliver clients scale.

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ClearMoney

DECEMBER 5, 2021

Index returns are not representative of actual portfolios and do not reflect costs and fees associated with an actual investment. Commissions, trailing commissions, management fees and expenses all may be associated with mutual fund investments. Indices are not available for direct investment. and top 87.5%

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ClearMoney

DECEMBER 5, 2021

Index returns are not representative of actual portfolios and do not reflect costs and fees associated with an actual investment. Commissions, trailing commissions, management fees and expenses all may be associated with mutual fund investments. Indices are not available for direct investment. and top 87.5%

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Pension Pulse

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

It's that time of the year again where we get a sneak peek into the portfolio's of the world's most famous money managers. The field’s best investment results in recent years have been those of “multistrategy” hedge funds like Ken Griffin’s Citadel and Izzy Englander’s Millennium Management. Thank you!!

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ClearMoney

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

Invariably, the question behind the question is, “Should I be doing something different in my portfolio?” If only we could find them, our portfolios would do so much better. How would her hypothetical portfolio have performed over the past 50 years following this simple annual readjustment strategy? Consider Felicity Foresight.

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The Big Picture

MARCH 27, 2023

She is an author and former hedge fund trader, specializing in distressed assets. She was a partner and a portfolio manager at Canyon Capital, a firm that runs currently about $25 billion. Her book, “Damsel in Distressed: My Life in the Golden Age of Hedge Funds”, is really a fascinating read. It’s hedge funds.

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ClearMoney

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

If markets stay open and continue to function normally, we generally continue investing our portfolios according to our usual process. Flexibility is valuable in managing portfolios through these events. The diversified nature of our portfolios is important in allowing us this flexibility. The Value of Flexibility.

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The Motley Fool

MAY 28, 2024

Stock Advisor provides investors with an easy-to-follow blueprint for success, including guidance on building a portfolio, regular updates from analysts, and two new stock picks each month. laughs] I currently have a 403(b) with about $63,000 in it that I stopped paying into about 10 years ago because the management fees were growing.

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ClearMoney

JANUARY 4, 2022

For investors worried about the impact of inflation on their portfolios, it is important to remember that US stocks since 1991 have generally provided returns that outpaced inflation. Concentrating your portfolio in a few hot stocks or cryptocurrencies—like focusing on any small number of holdings—can expose investors to substantial risk.

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ClearMoney

DECEMBER 13, 2021

Index returns are not representative of actual portfolios and do not reflect costs and fees associated with an actual investment. Commissions, trailing commissions, management fees, and expenses all may be associated with mutual fund investments. All rights reserved. Decrease of 19.6% was from Jan.

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The Motley Fool

DECEMBER 23, 2024

The simplicity is actually a key feature for long-term success that can help your portfolio perform better than the vast majority of professional fund managers out there. For example, more sophisticated hedge funds typically charge a flat management fee of 2%, coupled with a performance fee that takes 20% of annual profits.

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The Motley Fool

JANUARY 25, 2025

Exchange-traded funds (ETFs) have been around for about three decades, but they've grown in popularity in recent years. They trade on the market, so they're much easier to invest in than traditional mutual funds, and they often come with low expense ratios instead of high management fees.

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The Motley Fool

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

You don't want to have to retire in the middle of one with an all-stock portfolio. Research outfit Standard & Poor's, a part of S&P Global , keeps track of the performance of all the large-cap funds available to U.S. For the past 10 years, nearly 85% of these funds underperformed the overall market. What gives?

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