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November 24, 2017 Personal One Comment

4 Money-Management Tips To Help You Bootstrap Your Business

4 Money-Management Tips To Help You Bootstrap Your Business Sometimes, people who aspire to be business owners have this idea that they’ll pitch their idea, get millions of dollars in funding and start spending money like pro athletes. But, if they’re anything like the average American, they’ll have an … Continue reading at msn.com Curtis […]

January 12, 2016 Mutual Funds No Comments

How Demographic Trends Help Explain Rising Cash Balances And Persistent Outflows In Mutual Funds And Pension Funds

How Demographic Trends Help Explain Rising Cash Balances And Persistent Outflows In Mutual Funds And Pension Funds For all of the digital ink spent recently on the two interrelated topics of investment managers raising cash holdings and mutual fund outflows, very, very little of has been spent on why we have seen these new trends […]

November 1, 2015 Earnings 12 Comments

Earnings help make beating Wall Street that much sweeter

Earnings help make beating Wall Street that much sweeter Still, not many company have missed. Of the first 340 S&P 500 companies to report earnings for the third quarter, 76 percent of them have beaten estimates, FactSet reports, which is above historical averages. Still, it hasn’t been all peaches and cream … Continue reading at […]

October 24, 2015 Mutual Funds 11 Comments

Amazon, McDonald’s Help Power Stock Mutual Funds In Week

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Professional angels are lawyers, accountants, and doctors who want to make investments in companies that offer a service or product with which they have little experience. Their main goal of investing is to be hired by the business at the same time as consultant in their area of expertise.

Wherever you look, you will find various rating systems on mutual funds, each of which uses a different approach. All of them are designed to weed through the thousands of funds to get to the best ones. But is there really such a thing? Does a high rating really mean a fund will do better in the future? Many people seem to think so. A recent study showed that Morningstar, North America's most recognized rating system for funds, has a tremendous influence on fund sales. If Morningstar gives a five-star rating, those funds typically enjoy increased sales as a result.

Understand how the ratings were developed. Too many people put emphasis on the results without knowing how the results were achieved. If you are going to use ratings, take the time to understand how they were developed and what they really mean. It is not the destination but the journey that counts.