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Investing is the process of buying assets such as securities, real estate and other items of value that will hopefully increase in value over time, providing a return in the form of income payments or capital gains.
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Do currencies that are invested on belong to real assets or financial assets?
Currencies are a financial asset. Real assets must have a productive capacity. That is, they must be able to produce a good or service. Currencies, in contrast, are actually liabilities of the issu …
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What Happens to Bank Stocks If Country Defaults
Most national banks are required by the regulations of their host countries to hold significant reserves in the form of government debt. A default would likely wipe out their capital and your common s …
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Do stock prices drop due to dividends?
Yes, the stock price drops on the ex-dividend date by roughly the amount of the dividend. There is even academic research testing this and confirming that the popular rule of thumb works well.
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Mutual fund operations: How do mutual funds deploy incoming cash from investors in a fund?
Most funds keep a certain amount in cash at all times to satisfy outflows. Net inflows will simply be added to the cash balance while net outflows subtract. When the cash gets too low for the manage …
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Are real estate prices memory-less?
For various reasons, real estate prices exhibit far more memory than stock prices. The primary reason for this is that real estate is much less liquid. Transaction costs for stock trading are on the …
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What is the best way to balance my asset allocation with world allocation (aka "Go Anywhere"...
The intent behind your question defeats the purpose of investing in this fund. The point of "go anywhere" funds is to get away from Morningstar style boxes. …
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Is gold really an investment or just a hedge against inflation?
Over on Quantitative Finance Stack Exchange, I asked and answered a more technical and broader version of this question, Should the average investor hold commodities as part of a broadly diversified p …
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Is there a widely recognized bond index?
Multiple overlapping indices exist covering various investment universes. Almost all of the widely followed indices were originally created by Lehman Brothers and are now maintained by Barclays. The …
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What benefits are there to having a Pension (Retirement Account) In Ireland?
The typical drawbacks for investing within such structures are limited investment choice, limited withdrawal rights (either in terms of age or rate of withdrawal), and maximum contributions. …
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Balanced medium horizon investment for today's situation?
For the sort of medium term horizon you mention, a balanced portfolio weighted more towards high grade corporate bonds but with at least 20% stocks would be a safe bet. The key principle to remember …
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How can I find a high-risk, high-reward investment that is not strongly correlated with the ...
These days almost all risky assets move together, so the most difficult criterion to match from your 4 will be "not strongly correlated to the U.S. economy." However, depending on how you define "str …
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What factors affect the yield and "trade value" on an exchange of a junk bond ETF?
There's actually a lot of smaller questions in your question, so I'll answer just a few here.
The standard bond index for high yield corporates is the Barclays Capital High Yield Corporate index, whi …
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