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Informationen zum Autor Mark Heinzl is a reporter for The Wall Street Journal and the Dow Jones Newswires in Toronto, and has previously written for The Globe and Mail . He has covered a broad range of Canadian business, finance and investment topics, including the stock, bond and commodity markets and industries such as mining, manufacturing, high-tech, consumer products and others. Klappentext Stop Buying Mutual Funds is the book that Bay Street still doesn't want you to read! For years, millions of Canadians have injected billions of dollars into mutual funds in the quest for better returns on their investments. But few investors realize that most Canadian equity mutual funds consistently underperform the TSE300-- the key benchmark they're measured against. Stop Buying Mutual Funds explains why so many Canadian funds turn in such poor performances and offers a simple approach to beating the pros by investing on your own. Stop Buying Mutual Funds low-risk, low-maintenance system of do-it-yourself investing increases your chances of reaping long-term returns that beat most Canadian stock and bond mutual funds. Provides a low-fee do-it-yourself alternative to buying mutual funds. Shows you how you can create and build your own solid, low-risk and bond portfolio with Canadian and foreign investments. Tells you how to save thousands of dollars-- or even hundreds of thousands of dollars-- in feels over a lifetime of investing. Helps to maximize your investment returns both inside and outside of your RRSP. Offers practical advice for a range of investors, from the totally risk-averse to the more risk-tolerant. Completely revised and updated: statistics show that mutual funds are still well behind the indexes; discusses the emergence (finally!) of low-fee index funds in Canada; the fast-growing number of index stocks to choose from; and much more. Zusammenfassung Stop Buying Mutual Funds is the book that Bay Street still doesn't want you to read! For years! millions of Canadians have injected billions of dollars into mutual funds in the quest for better returns on their investments. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface to the Second Edition. Preface to the First Edition. Acknowledgements. The Top Ten Reasons Why You Shouldn't Buy Mutual Funds. Chapter 1: A Hard Look at Mutual Funds. Fund Companies Have Outperformed the Funds. What's the Big Deal About a 1% Shortfall? Bettering Your Odds. The Discount-Broker Alternative. What the Funds Aren't Telling You. You Can Do It, Too. The Playing Field Is Level. How Do Financial Advisors Make Money? Going It Alone. A Word to the Wise. Chapter 2: Mutual Fund Performance: Why Funds Don't Beat the Market. The Statistics. How Fees Reduce Returns. How Cash Reduces Returns. Why Funds Can't Keep Up. Why Fund Fees Are So High. Are Changes Coming?. Chapter 3: How the Funds Have Really Done. Canadian Equity Mutual Fund Performance. Fund Family Performance. Index Funds. Other Canadian Equity Funds. Low MER Funds. Other Types of Funds . U.S. Equity Funds. International Equity Funds. Bond Funds. Balanced Funds. Mortgage Funds. Chapter 4: Why Stocks and Bonds are Better Than Mutual Funds. Unfair Taxation. The Herd Mentality. Do Your Investments Match Your Ethics? Day Trading. What Are You Learning About Business From Mutual Funds? Information Sources. Annual Reports. Or Show Up in Person. Chapter 5: Self-Directed RRSPs and Non-RRSP Discount Broker Accounts. The Can-Con Rules. It's Your Choice. The Falling Cost of Self-Directed Acco...
