Top 7 Real Estate REIT Specialty Mutual Funds 2010

In this article, I’ll provide the Top 7 Best REIT Mutual Funds. Real Estate investment should  be part of investor’s asset diversification. Investing in real estate has become steadily more popular over the last 50 years and has become a common investment vehicle. The REIT Fund include: Vanguard REIT Index, Fidelity Real Estate Investment, etc

The following is the Top 7Best Real Estate REIT Mutual Funds:

1. Vanguard REIT Index
2. Fidelity Real Estate Investment
3. Cohen & Steers Realty Shares
4. DFA Real Estate Securities I
5. T. Rowe Price Real Estate
6. First American Real Estate Securities A
7. Invesco Real Estate A

Note: You can check my latest article about Best Real Estate Mutual Funds 2012.

Top 8 Precious Metals Mineral Mutual Fund

Top 8 Precious Metals Mineral Mutual Funds are Fidelity Select Gold Portfolio, Tocqueville Gold, First Eagle Gold, etc. These gold and silver funds are part of portfolio diversification.

Introduction

Investing in precious metals such as gold, and silver should be part of investor’s investment diversification. With uncertainty of various government action or inaction, precious metals can provide a solid asset.

The top 8 precious metal mutual fund includes Fidelity Select Gold, Oppenheimer Gold & Special Minerals, Franklin Gold and Precious Metals, First Eagle Gold and USAA Precious Metals and Minerals. Also there is more table comparison.

Top 8 Precious Metals Mutual Funds are:

1. Fidelity Select Gold Portfolio
2. Oppenheimer Gold & Special Minerals A
3. Franklin Gold and Precious Metals A
4. First Eagle Gold A
5. USAA Precious Metals and Minerals
6. Tocqueville Gold
7. Van Eck Intl Investors Gold A
8. Wells Fargo Advantage Precious Metals A

For latest article, please check Best Precious Metals Mutual Funds 2012.

BCA Bank Central Asia Online Internet Banking Review

BCA is an Indonesia based financial services company. The bank offers various individual and business product services such as insurance, credit card, checking account and saving account. BCA is also known as Bank Central Asia.

Some of the products and services are:

• Customers may check, do, and track financial transactions
• You can view and print account statements (up to 12 months)
• You can transfer funds online between BCA accounts as well as other bank accounts
• Update and change personal contact information such as address and email info
• Pay bills online or through mobile banking (m-BCA)
• Contact bank customer service or representative (Halo BCA)
• Access account at any time and any location
• Monitor accounts for any suspicious financial activity
• Manage credit cards account and debit card account
• Check various currency rates
• Provide demo on online banking

More on: BCA Bank Central Asia Online Internet Banking

Top 5 Popular Equity Income Mutual Fund plus Dividends

This post is about Top 5 Popular Equity Income Mutual Funds. The best funds are T Rowe Price Equity Income, BlackRock Equity Dividend, Vanguard Dividend Growth Fund, etc.

I have listed various types of mutual funds such as equity fund and fixed income fund. In this article, I'll focus on dividend equity mutual fund or also known as equity income fund. The list includes T Rowe Price Equity Income, Vanguard Dividend Growth...

Top 5 Popular Equity Income Mutual Funds are:

1. T Rowe Price Equity Income
2. BlackRock Equity Dividend Inv A
3. American Century Equity Income Class A
4. Vanguard Dividend Growth Fund
5. Columbia Diversified Equity Income

More on: Top 5 Popular Equity Income Mutual Fund plus Dividends

SogoTrade Online Stock Broker Account Review

SogoTrade is an online discount brokerage services that offers low cost options and stocks trades for investors or traders. To trade stock as well as ETF, it only cost $3.00 per trade with unlimited shares. To trade option, it will cost $5.00 per trade plus $0.65 per contract with unlimited shares.

• Products: Stocks, Options
• Market Orders: $3.00 per trade
• Limit Orders: $3.00 per trade
• Broker-Assisted Orders:$27.00 per trade
• Options: $5.00 + $0.65/contract
• Mutual Funds: Not Available
• Minimum to Open: $500
• Account Maintenance Fee:$0.00
• Account inactivity fee: $0.00
• Abandoned Account fee: $10 / month
• Account Closing Fee: $0.00
• Some Other Fees: Wire Fees: $25.00 per transfer.
• Outgoing ACAT: $75.00.
• Maximum Margin Rate: Based on proprietary base rate

More on Hubpages: My SogoTrade Online Stock Broker Account Review

Invesco Van Kampen Muni Oppo (VMO) Price Action

The price action of Invesco Van Kampen Muni Opportunity (Ticker: VMO) is reversed. This National Muni bond CEF provides a short term swing between gain and loss on December 6, 2010.

Looks to me, the price action on last Friday is a fluke. Probably due to fat finger or computer algo went crazy. :).

The Invesco Van Kampen Muni Oppo (VMO) fund lost another -10.60% after 10% moved last friday. Lucky me I sold it.

Top 8 Popular Exchange Traded Funds for Investment

Exchange Trade Funds or ETFs are another popular investment fund choice for investor. The low cost index exchange traded funds can provide significant boost for long term investor in term of performance. Some of the best exchange traded funds are: SPDR S&P 500, SPDR Gold Shares, Vanguard Emerging Markets Stock ETF, etc.

Intro

Exchange Traded Funds (ETFs) are similar to mutual funds; they also can be categorized into 2 main classes such as Equity Exchange Traded Fund (stock ETF) and Fixed Income Exchange Traded Funds (bond ETF). As usual, the bond ETF is less volatile than stock ETF. In this article, I will get into details about Top 10 Popular ETF to invest in either bond ETF or Stock ETF.

Bond ETF can be classified into two main categories such as taxable bond ETF and municipal bond ETF. Taxable bond ETF can consist of short term bond, intermediate term bond, and long term bond ETF including Investment Grade Bond or High Yield Bond ETF. The other bond ETFs are non taxable bond ETF or municipal bond ETF. The municipal bond has advantages especially for people that pay high income tax on Federal and state level since these Bond ETFs are tax free.

Stock ETF can be classified into three main categories such as Domestic Stock ETF, International Stock ETF and Emerging Market ETF. Domestic Stock ETFs include domestic small cap stock ETF, mid cap stock ETF, and large cap stock ETF. International Stock ETFs include European Stock ETF, Pacific Stock ETF, and more. Emerging Stock ETF include most developing countries in Asia, Africa and Eastern Europe. Some of these countries are known as BRIC acronym (Brazil, Russia, India and China).

Other sector ETFs are: REIT ETF, commodity ETF (Gold, Silver, Natural Gas etc), and specific country ETF (Brazil, Russia, India etc)

Best Exchange Traded Funds

The Top 8 Popular ETF to invest is:

1. SPDR S&P 500
2. SPDR Gold Shares
3. iShares MSCI Emerging Markets Index
4. iShares MSCI EAFE Index
5. Vanguard Emerging Markets Stock ETF
6. iShares S&P 500 Index
7. iShares Barclays TIPS Bond
8. PowerShares QQQ