When you have been awarded a settlement due to arbitration or through the order of a judge as a result of a lawsuit, one of the options open for receiving the award is by accepting structured mutual funds.

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.

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.

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

The Roth IRA is particularly useful for hands-on investors and the self-employed, but almost everyone can benefit from opening and fully-funding a Roth IRA.

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.

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.

SRI is an acronym for Socially Responsible Investing. According to one source over $2 trillion of money managed professionally is currently being invested according to some type of "social criteria"...