Financial Schools Reviews

A mutual fund is an investment that pools money from a group of investors to invest in a specific set of investments (such as stocks or bonds). Mutual fund companies create mutual funds and then employ professional mutual fund managers to oversee and adjust each mutual fund’s holdings as market conditions change.

When you buy a mutual fund, you buy shares, each of which represents a portion of the investments held by the mutual fund. For example, if a fund owns 50 different stocks, and you own shares of the mutual fund, you own a piece of each of those 50 stocks. W

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Another villa has been added to our portfolio of properties within the La Zagaleta estate. The owner is motivated to sell in a timely fashion, so despite a valuation done some years ago that came in at over €4,000,000, the vendor will accept offers around €2,800,000. Set in sector “C” of the development, this villa is amongst many established homes, therefore having its aspect guaranteed with the next owner.

With 5 bedrooms set over 700m2 of internal space, the property could also benefit from work being done to convert the basement area. A g

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A day doesn’t go by when we don’t read news of a data breach at a major company, healthcare facility or financial institution. The breaches at Epsilon, Sony and now brokerage Morgan Stanley Smith Barney, are a good example.

We asked Eduard Goodman, Identity Theft 911 chief privacy officer and an expert on international privacy and data protection law, what to do when a data breach notification letter lands in your mailbox.

His short answer: Don’t panic. Just pay attention.

Q: My bank just sent me a notice saying my personal data may have been compromised. Now w

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Every Sunday, The Simple Dollar reviews a personal finance or other book of interest. Also available is a complete list of the hundreds of book reviews that have appeared on The Simple Dollar over the years.

On My Own Two Feet by Manisha Thakor and Sharon Kedar is subtitled A Modern Girl’s Guide to Personal Finance, meaning that it joins a group of personal finance books targeting young(ish) women (such as Smart Women Finish Rich, You’re So Money, and Emotional Currency).

I find this area of personal finance books – ones directly targeting women – to be quite fascinating. Why is

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– The past week saw panic in the financial markets from the double whammy of the sovereign debt crisis plaguing the euro zone nations and the political stalemate over the U.S. debt ceiling. The euro zone debt crisis has claimed the scalps of Greece, Ireland and Portugal, which were forced to avail financing from the troika. The situation in Greece was so worse that the country could not set its fiscal house in order with the first round of financing and is knocking at the doors for further assistance.

A failure to reach a deal on releasing the second round of financing to Greece could spell disaster for the Mediterranean nation.

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