GENERAL SURVEY Open-end investment companies are now generally known as mutual funds, the terms being used interchangeably. Un doubtedly, the word mutual has sales value, for it is associated with savings banks and certain life insurance companies. In a number of ways, open-end companies are no more mutual than the ordinary […]

Risk & Reward In Forex Investment Clubs Stock markets are fascinating environments. But with unpredictable swings in prices, bull and bear phases, and stories about people making and losing millions overnight, they can also be intimidating to a beginning investor. Which is why forex investment clubs can be a good place […]

GENERAL SURVEY Closed-end investment companies differ from open-end com panies (mutual funds) in three important respects: 1. Closed-end companies do not constantly sell shares in order to raise additional money. As a rule, the capitalization of closed-end companies changes infrequently, if at all. 2. Prices of closed-end-company shares are […]

PBS host Louis Rukeyser dead at 73Washington Times - The longtime host of TV’s “Wall Street Week,” Louis Rukeyser, has died at his Greenwich, Conn., home at age 73. Rukeyser, who stepped down in 2003 after 32 years on the air to undergo treatment for a rare type of bone marrow cancer, died Tuesday, the […]

When Wall Street and Washington cooperate it is news indeed. It may be long before another industry so heartily endorses a regulatory measure and before both houses of Congress pass a similar proposal without a single negative vote. The Investment Company Act of 1940 was approved August 22 and became effective on […]

Money Management Tips Part III Using Cash, Diversifying & Hedging Risk All money management tips are meant to protect your capital and profits from unnecessary risk. But locking in your profits and taking small losses guard individual trades. The money management tips covered in this article offer a wider-ranging […]