Do you send your kid out on a baseball team before you ever play a game of catch with her? Does your boy go out for the band before ever playing 3 blind mice? Perhaps you shouldn’t stake a significant portion of your savings on your first investment ideas without a little practice stock trading [...]
When I talk to many people about their retirement portfolios we often talk about their stocks and bonds. This is because these assets easily build up in a 401k with no load mutual funds or the well commercialized stock market industry having everyone think they should be a trader. If you ask about which property [...]
One of the most unique opportunities our economy provides is the ability to make money through stock market investing. Of all the types of ways to make money, the stock market above all other types of strategies provides anyone with knowledge, experience and capital to leverage it into a fortune sitting in their own house [...]
So what exactly is a load vs no load mutual fund? A load fund is essentially a sales commission for the advisor or broker who found the mutual fund for you. There are either charged front end (sales commission), back end (out of profits) or level loaded (a percentage of the purchase every year.) The [...]