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Book Synopsis Mutual Funds Exposed, 2nd Edition by : Kenneth A Kim
Download or read book Mutual Funds Exposed, 2nd Edition written by Kenneth A Kim and published by Eqis Capital Management, Incorporated. This book was released on 2016-03-15 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mutual Funds Exposed is an engaging, easy-to-read expose that rips the cover off an industry that commands trillions of dollars of investor savings, and shines a bright light on the pitfalls of mutual funds. It also provides a glimpse into alternatives that ultra-wealthy investors have enjoyed for decades. This is a must-read for any investor.
Book Synopsis Swing Pricing and Fragility in Open-end Mutual Funds by : Dunhong Jin
Download or read book Swing Pricing and Fragility in Open-end Mutual Funds written by Dunhong Jin and published by International Monetary Fund. This book was released on 2019-11-01 with total page 46 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How to prevent runs on open-end mutual funds? In recent years, markets have observed an innovation that changed the way open-end funds are priced. Alternative pricing rules (known as swing pricing) adjust funds’ net asset values to pass on funds’ trading costs to transacting shareholders. Using unique data on investor transactions in U.K. corporate bond funds, we show that swing pricing eliminates the first-mover advantage arising from the traditional pricing rule and significantly reduces redemptions during stress periods. The positive impact of alternative pricing rules on fund flows reverses in calm periods when costs associated with higher tracking error dominate the pricing effect.
Book Synopsis Mutual Funds Exposed by : William Nelson
Download or read book Mutual Funds Exposed written by William Nelson and published by . This book was released on 2014-10-19 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mutual funds can suffer from many flaws. This book describes these flaws. Many of these flaws may impose costs that are not always disclosed to you, including tax inefficiency (see Chapter 2), high "hidden" costs (see Chapter 3), and high management costs (see Chapter 4). Mutual funds might also underperform (see Chapter 4), suffer from over-diversification (see Chapter 5), and may be nontransparent (see Chapter 6), and, sadly, they may even be sneaky (see Chapter 7).But fear not. There is a simple alternative: Separately Managed Accounts (SMAs) (see Chapter 8).
Download or read book Mutual Funds written by John A. Haslem and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2009-11-02 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An authoritative, must-read guide to making more informed decisions about mutual funds Providing a balance of theory and application, this authoritative book will enable you to evaluate the various performance and risk attributes of mutual funds. It covers a broad range of topics, including understanding the advantages and disadvantages of mutual funds, evaluating stock/bond allocations within fund portfolios, assessing fund diversification risk, measuring fund returns and risk, and making fund buy/sell decisions. While informative chapters combine clear summaries of existing research with practical guidelines for mutual fund analysis, step-by-step decision checklists guide you through the selection of various mutual funds. Puts the risks and rewards of mutual fund investing in perspective Skillfully examines how to select and evaluate the best mutual funds Outlines mutual fund service advantages and disadvantages Discusses the long- and short-term effectiveness of mutual funds Covering major theoretical and management issues in mutual fund analysis and portfolio management, this book is an authoritative guide.
Book Synopsis Investment Traps Exposed by : H. Kent Baker
Download or read book Investment Traps Exposed written by H. Kent Baker and published by Emerald Group Publishing. This book was released on 2017-03-20 with total page 447 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Investment Traps Exposed helps investors and investment practitioners increase their awareness about the external and internal traps that they or their clients can encounter.
Book Synopsis On the International Transmission of Shocks by : Claudio E. Raddatz
Download or read book On the International Transmission of Shocks written by Claudio E. Raddatz and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Using micro-level data on mutual funds from different financial centers investing in equity and bonds, this paper analyzes how investors and managers behave and transmit shocks across countries. The paper shows that the volatility of mutual fund investments is quantitatively driven by investors through injections of capital into, or redemptions out of, each fund, and by managers changing the country weights and cash in their portfolios. Both investors and managers respond to returns and crises, and substantially adjust their investments accordingly. These mechanisms generated large capital reallocations during the global financial crisis. Their behavior tends to be pro-cyclical, reducing their exposure to countries experiencing crises and increasing it when conditions improve. Managers actively change country weights over time, although there is significant short-run "pass-through," meaning that price changes affect country weights. Consequently, capital flows from mutual funds do not seem to stabilize markets and instead expose countries to foreign shocks.
Book Synopsis International Mutual Funds, Capital Flow Volatility, and Contagion – A Survey by : Mr.R. Gelos
Download or read book International Mutual Funds, Capital Flow Volatility, and Contagion – A Survey written by Mr.R. Gelos and published by International Monetary Fund. This book was released on 2011-04-01 with total page 29 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gaining a better understanding of the behavior of international investors is key for informing the debate about the optimal response to capital flows and about reforms to the international financial architecture. In this context, recent research on the behavior of international mutual funds at the micro level has expanded our knowledge about the drivers of portfolio flows and the mechanisms behind the transmission of financial shocks across countries. This paper provides a brief survey of this literature, with a focus on the empirical evidence for emerging markets. Overall, the behavior of international mutual funds is complex and overly simplistic characterizations are misleading. However, there is broad-based evidence for momentum trading among funds. Moreover, funds tend to avoid opaque markets and assets, and this behavior becomes more pronounced during volatile times. Portfolio rebalancing mechanisms are clearly important in explaining contagion patterns, even in the absence of common macroeconomic fundamentals. From a surveillance point of view, this implies that monitoring the exposures of large investors at a micro level is crucial to assess vulnerabilities.
Book Synopsis Common Sense on Mutual Funds by : John C. Bogle
Download or read book Common Sense on Mutual Funds written by John C. Bogle and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2009-12-02 with total page 663 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John C. Bogle shares his extensive insights on investing in mutual funds Since the first edition of Common Sense on Mutual Funds was published in 1999, much has changed, and no one is more aware of this than mutual fund pioneer John Bogle. Now, in this completely updated Second Edition, Bogle returns to take another critical look at the mutual fund industry and help investors navigate their way through the staggering array of investment alternatives that are available to them. Written in a straightforward and accessible style, this reliable resource examines the fundamentals of mutual fund investing in today's turbulent market environment and offers timeless advice in building an investment portfolio. Along the way, Bogle shows you how simplicity and common sense invariably trump costly complexity, and how a low cost, broadly diversified portfolio is virtually assured of outperforming the vast majority of Wall Street professionals over the long-term. Written by respected mutual fund industry legend John C. Bogle Discusses the timeless fundamentals of investing that apply in any type of market Reflects on the structural and regulatory changes in the mutual fund industry Other titles by Bogle: The Little Book of Common Sense Investing and Enough. Securing your financial future has never seemed more difficult, but you'll be a better investor for having read the Second Edition of Common Sense on Mutual Funds.
Download or read book Mutual Funds written by Vivek K. Negi and published by Diamond Pocket Books Pvt Ltd. This book was released on 2020 with total page 86 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Financial freedom is the ultimate aim for everyone during his life. But it can't be achieved just by earning more & more money. It's a process of strategic investment planning through earning stage of life. Everyone can become rich in later stage of the life by planning his early phase. One penny saved today may earn one penny at regular intervals during long term. The formula of calculating future value of money also takes into consideration the following factors: 1. Amount Invested 2. Rate of Return 3. Time Duration ÿ ÿ It says that more you invest, more you will get in return. Second, more returns means more money. And longer the time duration of investment, better returns you will get. We can't control returns, we can't invest big amounts but we can invest small amounts at regular intervals over a long period of time. If this amount is properly diversified in different asset classes, it can help you to achieve better returns with the security of the money invested. Mutual fund helps you to take exposure of different asset classes and get the best returns. Let's come to a journey towards freedom through this book.
Book Synopsis An Analysis of the Expense Ratio Pricing of SMB, HML and UMD Exposure in U.S. Equity Mutual Funds by : Jared Kizer
Download or read book An Analysis of the Expense Ratio Pricing of SMB, HML and UMD Exposure in U.S. Equity Mutual Funds written by Jared Kizer and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The expense ratio price of U.S. equity market exposure is close to zero with funds such as the Vanguard Total Stock Market Index (ticker: VTSAX), which charges an expense ratio of just 5 bps. An interesting, and more difficult, question to answer is, How much are mutual fund companies charging investors to gain exposure to small-capitalization, value, and positive momentum stocks? The authors answer this question using monthly returns data for low-cost mutual funds and ETFs in tandem with Fama-French three- and Carhart four-factor equity pricing models and current fund expense ratio levels. They indeed find strong evidence that fund companies charge for exposure to individual factor premiums. Additionally, they find significant variation in how aggressively factor exposure is priced, both across fund companies and across portfolios offering identical levels of factor premium exposure.
Download or read book Index Funds written by Mark T. Hebner and published by IFA Publishing, Inc.. This book was released on 2007 with total page 411 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The financial services industry has a dark secret, one that costs global investors about $2.5 trillion per year. This secret quietly drains the investment portfolios and retirement accounts of almost every investor. In 1900, French mathematician, Louis Bachelier, unsuspectingly revealed this disturbing fact to the world. Since then, hundreds of academic studies have supported Bachelier's findings. This book offers overwhelming proof of this, and shows investors how to obtain their optimal rate of return by matching their risk capacity to an appropriate risk exposure. A globally diversified portfolio of index funds is the optimal way to accomplish this. Index Funds is the treatment of choice for wayward investors. Below market returns in investment portfolios and pension accounts are the result of investors gambling with their hard earned money. This 12-Step Program will put active investors on the road to recovery. Each step is designed to bring investors closer to embracing a prudent and sound strategy of buying, holding, and rebalancing an index portfolio.
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Book Synopsis After Blackstone by : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Oversight and Government Reform. Subcommittee on Domestic Policy
Download or read book After Blackstone written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Oversight and Government Reform. Subcommittee on Domestic Policy and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Conditional Market Timing in the Mutual Fund Industry by : Vanessa S. Tchamyou
Download or read book Conditional Market Timing in the Mutual Fund Industry written by Vanessa S. Tchamyou and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study complements the scarce literature on conditional market timing in the mutual fund industry by assessing determinants of market timing throughout the distribution of market exposure. It builds on the intuition that the degree of responsiveness by fund managers to investigated factors (aggregate liquidity, information asymmetry, volatility and market excess return) is contingent on their levels of market exposure. To this end, we use a panel of 1467 active open-end mutual funds for the period 2004-2013. Fund-specific time-dynamic beta is employed and we avail room for more policy implications by disaggregating the dataset into market fundamentals of: equity, fixed income, allocation and tax preferred. The empirical evidence is based on Quantile regressions. The following findings are established. First, there is consistent positive threshold evidence of volatility and market return in market timing, with the slim exception of allocation funds for which the pattern of volatility is either U- or S-shaped. Second, the effect of volatility and market return are consistently positive and negative respectively in the bottom and top quintiles of market exposure, but for allocation funds. Third, the effects of information asymmetry and aggregate liquidity are positive and negative, contingent on specifications, level of market exposure and market fundamentals. The findings broadly suggest that blanket responses of market exposures to investigated factors are unlikely to represent feasible strategies for fund managers unless they are contingent on initial levels of market exposure and tailored differently across 'highly exposed'-fund managers and 'lowly exposed'-fund managers. Implications for investors and fund managers are discussed.
Book Synopsis International Convergence of Capital Measurement and Capital Standards by :
Download or read book International Convergence of Capital Measurement and Capital Standards written by and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2004 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Investor's Paradox by : Brian Portnoy
Download or read book The Investor's Paradox written by Brian Portnoy and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2014-01-07 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Investors are in a jam. A troubled global economy, unpredictable markets, and a bewildering number of investment choices create a dangerous landscape for individual and institutional investors alike. To meet this challenge, most of us rely on a portfolio of fund managers to take risk on our behalves. Here, investment expert Brian Portnoy delivers a powerful framework for choosing the right ones – and avoiding the losers. Portnoy reveals that the right answers are found by confronting our own subconscious biases and behavioral quirks. A paradox we all face is the natural desire for more choice in our lives, yet the more we have, the less satisfied we become – whether we're at the grocery store, choosing doctors, or flipping through hundreds of TV channels. So, too, with investing, where there are literally tens of thousands of funds from which to choose. Hence "the investor's paradox": We crave abundant investment choices to conquer volatile markets, yet with greater flexibility, the more overwhelmed and less empowered we become. Leveraging the fresh insights of behavioral economics, Portnoy demystifies the opaque world of elite hedge funds, addresses the limits of mass market mutual funds, and discards the false dichotomy between "traditional" and "alternative" investments. He also explores why hedge funds have recently become such a controversial and disruptive force. Turns out it's not the splashy headlines – spectacular trades, newly minted billionaires, aggressive tactics – but something much more fundamental. The stratospheric rise to prominence and availability of alternative strategies represents a further explosion in the size and complexity of the choice set in a market already saturated with products. It constitutes something we all both crave and detest. The Investor's Paradox lights a path toward simplicity in a world of dangerous markets and overwhelming choice. Written in accessible, jargon-free language, with a healthy skepticism of today's money management industry, it offers not only practical tools for investment success but also a message of empowerment for investors drowning in possibility.
Book Synopsis The Mysteries of Investing Revealed by : Gary Wilson
Download or read book The Mysteries of Investing Revealed written by Gary Wilson and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2018-01-27 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Mysteries of Investing Revealed is a book about investing in common stocks and related securities. The objective of the book is to educate the small investor so that he is able to achieve adequate returns to meet retirement needs and all other needs.
Book Synopsis Wealth Without Worry by : James N. Whiddon
Download or read book Wealth Without Worry written by James N. Whiddon and published by Brown Books. This book was released on 2005 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Most investment strategies focus on improving returns through market timing and stock picking—techniques known as active management. If these practices are so effective, why do returns for the overwhelming majority of investors lag well behind the market indices year after year? In Wealth Without Worry, authors James Whiddon and Lance Alston expose Wall Street's flawed system and offer a proven alternative to chasing returns. While Wall Street firms claim they can help investors pick winning securities and time the market's ups and downs, Whiddon and Alston clearly demonstrate how market returns can be harnessed simply and consistently through a properly diversified portfolio. Wealth Without Worry is based on Nobel Prize-winning research in economics—what has become known as Modern Portfolio Theory (MPT). The investing principles outlined in this book have been tested and refined for decades in both academia and the real world. Wealth Without Worry shows readers how to apply these principles using a super-diversified Market Return Portfolio (MRP). By not succumbing to Wall Street shell games, all investors can have long-term success. Wealth Without Worry gives readers a map to the last investment strategy they'll ever need.
