Invest Skeptically

ING Direct Canada has launched its Streetwise Fund:
ING DIRECT is once again challenging the high fees Canadians pay for investing and bringing diversification at a low cost to the masses with the launch of a new index-based mutual fund called the Streetwise Fund. The Streetwise Fund is a diversified balanced fund which incorporates several [...]

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Chuck Jaffe at MarketWatch writes, Dancing with the stars, and warns mutual fund investors to take the Morningstar tools for what they are. The two examples he cites as misused/misinterpreted tools are the star rating system and the style box description.
His conclusion: “Use Morningstar’s tools as intended — as helpers, and not decision-makers — [...]

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Duncan Hood writes, “Steal this column,” in Canadian Business Online. He refers to a research paper that suggests copycat funds — that simply mimic mutual funds at each public disclosure (funds have to release their holdings at least semi-annually) — can yield similar returns to the mutual funds they copy, and, in the [...]

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Today’s blog is about mutual fund fees. More specifically, the following are some links from other people on the internet ranting about how evil they are.
Here’s a column by Robert Kiyosaki at Yahoo! Finance, here’s another, and another, by Duncan Hood at Canadian Business Online, and here’s one by John Chow the famous blogger [...]

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Ian McGugan writes, Confessions of an unethical investor, for Canadian Business Online and discloses his own “unethical” portfolio.
He writes: “It’s my experience that as long as a company operates within the law, intelligent people can debate its ethical stature from now until dividend day without reaching a conclusion [...] Ethical investing assumes that somebody — [...]

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