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How to find a stock/mutual fund’s beta value on Yahoo Finance?

Question by christine: How to find a stock/mutual fund’s beta value on Yahoo Finance?
I’m doing an investment simulation for my finance class, and we have to invest in mutual funds. We’re supposed to be strategic with our investments, and I want to find the beta value for various stocks/funds, but i cannot find them anywhere on Yahoo Finance. Are they displayed on Yahoo Finance and if so where can I find them???

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Answer by Tangent
For a mutual fund click on the “Risk” tab on the left and you can find the beta of the fund. For a stock simply click on the “Key Statistics” tab on the left hand side of the page once you are on the stocks Yahoo Finance page. Good luck!

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With the fast growing number of hapless small investors in Bangladesh stock-market joining the fuming public agitations in the backdrop of continuing deep slide of the index, the Securities & Exchange Commission (SEC) sat with the Asset Management Companies and accepts the proposal of AIMS of Bangladesh to temporarily ease single company & sector exposure limits of mutual funds in order to increase dwindling liquidity in the market.

New Year’s Resolutions For Stock Market Investors

New Year’s Resolutions For Stock Market Investors

Toronto, ON (PRWEB) January 4, 2006

It is at this time each year when we make New Year’s resolutions, to help reduce the gap between where we are today and where we want to be in the future. Having been able to speak to thousands of investors over the last five years, I have compiled a list of my favorite New Year’s resolutions that will help stock market investors, no matter which way the market goes this year.

1 Reduce Costs

While most investors are focused on how to make more money in the stock market, it is just as important to try to reduce your costs of investing. Like any good CEO, you must focus on getting the best value possible for every dollar you spend. While it would be exciting to find an area in which you could save a large sum of money, it is often the little expenses that fly just under our mental radar that end up costing us the most. Keep an eye on commissions, service fees and transaction fees. Whether you spend $ 49, $ 29, $ 19, or even $ 9.99, to make a trade, in the end, you’ll get exactly the same result.

2 Think Small

Concentrate on hitting singles, not home runs. Everyone has dreams of making it big in the stock market. But the quest to hit a big home run often comes at the expense of taking advantage of the markets’ internal ability to rise over the long-term. If you can just increase the value of your portfolio by just an extra 1% per year, it could end up netting you hundreds of thousands of dollars in extra profits over the long-term. A $ 500,000 portfolio, earning 4%, will be worth $ 1,095,561 in 20 years. Add an additional 1%, and you will increase your returns by an additional $ 231,000.

3 Fire Your Mutual Fund Company

According to the last count, there are over 10,000 mutual funds in North America, which means that there are more mutual funds than stocks. Why are there so many? A mutual fund company is one of the most profitable businesses to start, with little or no risk. That is why every bank, insurance company, brokerage company and financial institution in the world, also sells mutual funds. And as history tells us, lack of performance does not hinder a mutual fund company’s ability to succeed, as it would in say a business like a drug company, or an energy company. Remember the basis of the mutual fund company is to invest with other people’s money, and charge them for doing so. And they do so, while rarely ever beating the stock market indexes.

In the previous resolution, we looked at how a 1% increase, in your return, could earn you an extra $ 231,000. This is the same 1% return that the mutual fund companies are hoping to skim off your portfolio over the next 20 years.

Can you tell yourself, in the next 60 seconds, why you are dealing with your current mutual fund company? Is it because of the above average returns? Is it because of the lower than average fees? If not, then you may be stuck with its $ 231,000 gorilla sitting on your shoulders for the next 20 years.

If you do not want to fire your mutual fund company, then, you might be able to get by just being more selective in the funds that you choose from their fund family. Most mutual fund companies today now offer “Index” funds at a lower expense ratio than their normal “Managed” funds. Historically, Index funds, will outperform Managed funds over the long run. In many cases, you should be able to save, at least, 1% in your annual fees.

The more extreme solution, but increasingly popular, would be to move from mutual funds to exchange traded funds.

Exchange traded funds, or ETF’s, are very similar to mutual funds, but trade, just like stocks. In fact, some of the major exchange traded funds are now some of the most popular stocks traded on the major indexes.

4 Invest In A Mutual Fund Company

The best way to make money in mutual funds, is to invest in a mutual fund company.

5 Avoid The Crowd

Many people save for their retirement by making regular monthly contributions. This is probably the best way to save for the long-term. Unfortunately, most people make this contribution at the end of the month. With so much new money entering the market at the end of each month, stocks will often trade higher for a couple of days before, and a couple of days after month end, meaning that you may end up paying higher prices. Try moving your contribution date to the middle of the month and avoid the month end price squeeze.

6 Never Wait For The Why

Have you ever tried to tell a three-year-old to do something? Inevitably, their reply will be a one-word answer, “Why?”. Well, it seems like we never lose that childish curiosity which causes us to reply to an instruction, by asking the question why.

Unfortunately, the stock market is not in the habit of telling us why we need to do something at the time we need to do it.

If you have been waiting to take action in the market, and the opportunity presents itself, do not stop and look around for the answer to the question why. Take action first, and the answer to the question why will come later.

Why sell Enron? Why sell Taser? Why sell Krispy Kreme? Why sell General Motors?

7 Learn The Skill Of Selling

We live in a society where we are born and bred to be shoppers. From the time we wake up in the morning, until we go to sleep at night, we are bombarded with messages that tell us to buy, buy, buy. So it’s no wonder that investors find it very easy to buy stocks, but feel uncomfortable when it comes time to sell them. Selling should be about taking profits, or avoiding loss. It should not be about being right or wrong. Some of the greatest investors in the world are wrong more than they are right. But when they’re wrong, they sell quickly and reduce their loss, and risks. And when they’re right, they hold on as long as possible, until the market tells them to sell.

When the stock market fell in 2000, investors did not lose money because they did not know what stocks to buy, they lost money because they did not know when to sell.

8 The First One Now Will Later Be Last

It was nearly 40 years ago when the famous singer/songwriter, Bob Dylan, wrote those famous words “The first one now will later be last”. Obviously, Mr. Dylan was not referring to the stock market, but he could’ve been. As a society, we love success. We love to follow and idolize winners in just about any sector of society, including winners in the stock market. Unfortunately, it is very rare that you see a winner repeat its performance, year after year.

What was the best-performing stock, mutual fund or sector last year, will not be the best-performing stock, mutual fund or sector this year.

Don’t chase success. Buying last year’s best-performing anything, could be one of the most costly investment mistakes you ever make.

9 Manage What You Can Manage

When a baseball coach walks out, onto the field, is he managing the players on his team, or the spectators in the stands?

When you look at the stock market, are you trying to manage all the stocks in the stock market, or are you trying to manage your selected group of better than average stocks, ETF’s, and mutual funds?

There is a logical reason why there are only so many players on a sports team; why there are only so many soldiers in a platoon; and why there are only so many people working for an accounts receivable manager.

Your goal should be to keep the list of the things that you’re following as small as possible.

If you’re following more stocks than the president has seats of his cabinet table, you’re probably following too many.

Have a Happy New Year and all the best to you and your family in 2006.

Stephen Whiteside

http://theuptrend.com/

Stephen Whiteside is the CEO of the online stock market timing service, TheUpTrend.com. Each day TheUpTrend.com provides Investors with daily, weekly and monthly trend analysis, buy & sell signals, price targets, support & resistance price levels, and Smart Money Alerts, on over 1,500 leading North American companies listed on the TSX, NYSE, and the NASDAQ.

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Spy Guy Continues Sky-High Returns

Spy Guy Continues Sky-High Returns

Santa Barbara CA (PRWEB) March 18, 2004

Dr. Joe Scifers, ex-CIA, reports that his $ impleMoney Newsletter has, for three years running, outperformed the Dow, NASDAQ, S&P500, and 99 percent of equity mutual funds. His picks were up 34% in 2001, 7.2% in 2002, and 67% in 2003.

The three-year return of his documented stock picks is 140%. This return was generated with a portfolio with an average beta—or risk level—of 0.70, or 30% less risk the broad market with a beta of 1.0. “In general,” said Scifers, “investors focus too much on performance and too little on risk.”

The $ impleMoney newsletter, published weekly by email, was founded to help investors cut through the maze of complicated and often contradictory market and stock data. In Scifers’ opinion, “Investing has become unnecessarily complicated—it is, or should be, a very straightforward, even simple process. Our goal is simple, understandable, and successful investing for everyone.”

“We’re stocks guys, not market guys; in fact we’re relatively indifferent to what the market does. In any market, there are always many worthwhile investments. We use bottom-up, quantitative fundamental analysis to find the best stocks—ignoring any size, value/growth, or sector constraints,” said Scifers, who also manages a successful hedge fund.

Dr. Scifers has a Doctorate from the Harvard Business School, graduated the US Naval Academy, and holds graduate degrees from Stanford and Columbia. In addition to the CIA, he has worked at the Rand Corporation and in the White House. His website is http://www.scifers.com.

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Hedge Fund Gurus’ Investment Ideas Tracked by GuruFocus.com

Hedge Fund Gurus’ Investment Ideas Tracked by GuruFocus.com

(PRWEB) October 4, 2005

When Warren Buffett buys a new stock, millions of people follow. For more stock ideas, investors may also want to look at the investment gurus who are as good, or almost as good as Buffett. GuruFocus.com has been tracking the stock picks of the best mutual fund managers. It also initiated tracking the stock ideas of hedge fund gurus.

“These hedge fund managers have beaten Warren Buffett in his own game, although some of them consider themselves students of Warren Buffett,” said Dr. Charlie Tian, research director at GuruFocus.com. “Most of them are value-investors, they have the same investment philosophy as Buffett’s.”

As of today GuruFocus.com tracks the stock picks of hedge fund managers George Soros, Edward Lampert, Bruce Sherman, and Glenn Greenberg, besides the best mutual fund managers it has been tracking: Bill Miller, Martin Whitman, John Keeley, Ron Baron, Bill Nygren and 16 others.

Not all the stocks gurus pick go up, some of them go down, at least initially. GuruFocus.com features a Bargains page where investors may find bargains. With some homework, investors may buy stocks at lower prices than what the gurus have paid.

The consensus picks of these investment gurus are highlighted in GuruFocus.com. These picks certainly deserve more attention. As of today, Wal-Mart (WMT), Pfizer (PFE), and Cisco (CSCO) are among the top of the consensus picks. Some stocks have been sold by multiple gurus, watch out and make sure they are not in your portfolio.

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Stocks Vs Mutual Funds – Where to Invest

Investments for your securing your financial future are very important. It is also common for investor to get confused with various options. Investors are used to list down many investment options for spanning their various assets.

You can’t park your money in any scheme depending upon what other says, as other people may be expert on that field, but if you are not an expert you should consult some experts and ask for their opinions.

Many investors have very limited time and skill in managing all investments/finance. Both time and skill are required to do some kind of research before investing in any investment avenue. Time is required as you need to track the market and skills are required in picking up good investments from your list of investments.

Many investors majorly come across two options, within the domain of investment, either to choose Stocks or to go for Mutual Funds.

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If you are looking for a better return on your investments and are ready to risk for your money go stocks, but if you want to play safe with your investments and are ready compromise on your return you should for Mutual fund. However both will give you better return in longer period of time.

If you opt for investing in Stocks, you need to have sufficient time, as you need to do a lot of research for investing in stocks. Investing in Stocks sounds like one time activity but there is a lot of research that you need to done pre investing as well as post investing. You need to track prospect of sector, other companies that are operating in that sector etc. Moreover investor also needs to do a research on economic growth of the sector. Moreover while you are investing in stocks you need to study research reports either premium of free to evaluate the performance of stocks. You would also like to meet the money managers who are handling your stocks investments, which may not be possible in case of stocks.

While investing in Mutual Funds, you may not face all these issues, as you need to go into researching the growth of sectors, various financial updates etc. Also as a Mutual fund investor you can have direct access to research, meeting up with the company management and industry bigwigs is something they do on a regular basis.

Remember earlier you start investing better will be your financial future, depending upon your risk appetite opt for any Good investment option. Diversify all your investments so that you can have get good return from your investments.

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