1. And no wonder new purchases of bond funds are a pittance compared with what people shovel into stock funds. 2. Many investors could end up with even more money if they kept stock funds in taxable accounts. 3. You could look at the annual report of a stock fund and figure out if that standard was met. 4. Along with balanced funds, I would suggest you establish positions in mid-cap and small-cap stock funds. 5. Also, with bond yields rising, some investors were switching money into money-market mutual funds from stock funds, traders said. 6. Also, should we keep some of the money in a stock fund for growth and protection against inflation? 7. Also, stock fund inflows traditionally trail off beginning in May, as sales related to retirement planning decline. 8. Americans are hurling cash into stock funds while bond fund managers, no matter how skillful, must scrounge for new money. 9. Americans are putting the bulk of their money in aggressively managed stock funds that invest much their assets in more speculative, small-sized companies. 10. Among stock funds, only mid-capitalization value funds saw inflows in September, Lipper said. |