Although the returns on short term investments are usually low, they offer greater access and liquidity and more security than long term investments like stocks, bonds, real estate, and hard assets like gold or silver. While some of the best short term investments don’t pay much more in returns than your piggy bank, they are [...]

A mutual fund is a type of professionally managed investment that allows a group of investors to pull their capital together and purchase securities, while sharing the burden of administrative and trading costs. There are many different types of mutual funds; open-ended funds sell an unlimited number of shares publicly, either in bulk or to [...]

When looking to invest in mutual funds, the two places you’re likely to turn to are Vanguard or Fidelity. The two biggest mutual fund companies in the United States, they each have a collective $1.7 trillion in assets (which includes categorized options that they offer, such as money market funds and exchanged-traded funds or ETFs). [...]

As Warren Buffet sometimes complains, having a large amount of cash to deploy in a meaningful way gets harder as the size of your company increases. For Berkshire Hathaway, the choices are limited to stocks or companies with large capitalizations, since any sizeable stock purchase of small or medium companies will drastically affect their share [...]

With the United States presidential election finally having run its course, and President Barack Obama re-elected, people can finally begin to focus on the long-term effects that the election will have on financial markets around the world. Needless to say, one of the core issues of the 2012 presidential campaign in the United States was [...]

Years ago, people could invest money and feel fairly secure they would eventually make a profit. Yes, there were highs and lows, but overall investors were not too concerned about losing their life savings in a financial crash or crises. In recent years, however, investments have become risky at best with huge fluctuations in valuations, [...]