Sector funds have their place in your portfolio, not as core holdings, but as a diversified way of making targeted investments in selected niches.

The key to building a strong investment portfolio is to set your goals and diversify but not have so many investments you cant follow and to avoid investments which are too small to be meaningful.

Many mutual fund screening tools have portfolio turnover as one of their filters and you can usually find a fund's turnover (expressed as a percentage) on the fund's snapshot page or by doing a little digging on the fund's website.

ETF trend and investment information.

Mutual fund review, S&P and related earnings.

It's a headline that every stock market investor fears will happen. The markets crash and their hard-earned nest egg evaporates. They're forced to go back to work and must resort to eating beans and rice. Is that fear justified? No.

Mutual funds are good options for American investors to meet their financial goals. These funds offer professional management and diversification of the funds invested. Mutual funds assets in 1990-2000 rose from 1.065 trillion to a whooping 6.965 trillion dollars.

An IRA is an Individual Retirement Account, which provides either a tax-deferred or a tax-free way of saving for future retirement.

In a Mutual Fund, the fund manager trades the fund's underlying securities, realizing their capital gains or loss, and collects the dividend or say the interest income.

For a relatively small investment, mutual funds give individual investors the ability to buy a diverse portfolio of stocks and / or other financial instruments - all in one transaction.