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BusinessWeek
May 8, 2008
Lewis Braham |
Veteran Managers, Nimble New Funds If you're looking for a mutual fund that will see you through the morass, don't just look at funds with long track records. A better strategy may be to buy a new fund launched by an old hand.   |
The Motley Fool
May 7, 2008
Zoe Van Schyndel |
How You Can Profit From the Next Oil Bust If oil crashes, this exchange-traded fund should skyrocket. |
The Motley Fool
May 7, 2008
Selena Maranjian |
Time to Deep-Six 12b-1 Fees? Be on the lookout for these mutual fund fees, which do more harm than good. |
Financial Advisor
May 2008
Alan Lavine |
Value Fund Managers Find Bargains Value fund managers, who have been snapping up large company stocks they expect to perform well in an economic rebound, say they have time on their side. |
Financial Advisor
May 2008
Michael C. Keenan |
The Elephant In The Living Room The transaction costs charged by mutual fund managers are often a significant, if clandestine, part of the fund business, but some Washington lawmakers are trying to change that. |
Registered Rep.
May 1, 2008
Stan Luxenberg |
Currency Plays For The Retail Set At a time when most experts expect the dollar to keep sinking, the Dodge & Cox fund is using futures to bet that the U.S. currency will rise. |
Registered Rep.
May 1, 2008
Brad Zigler |
How To Play The Agriculture Game Commodities' popularity with retail investors ebbs and flows with the inflation cycle. Should you invest in the stocks of companies involved in commodity production, ETFs, or futures? |
The Motley Fool
May 1, 2008
Selena Maranjian |
Look Who's Running Harvard Harvard's endowment fund's new manager has an impressive track record behind her. Will she do the same for Harvard? |
Financial Planning
May 1, 2008
Stacy Schultz |
Nowhere to Hide During the first three months of 2008 the market saw its worst quarter since 2002, with only a few funds that had minimal loss. |
Financial Planning
May 1, 2008
David Adler |
The Short Story With no sign that the real estate or credit markets have bottomed out, and every sign that consumers are running out of money, long-short funds may be well situated to take advantage of this new era. |
Financial Planning
May 1, 2008
Elizabeth O'Brien |
Foul-Weather Friend The five-star Diamond Hill Long-Short fund outperformed the markets significantly this year. |
The Motley Fool
April 28, 2008
Zoe Van Schyndel |
Good Things Come in Small Packages Micro-cap funds add diversification and potentially high returns to your portfolio. |
Smart Money
May 2008
Janet Paskin |
Target-Date Funds Hard to Evaluate Target-date funds are supposed to make investing easier - but they're hard to evaluate. |
Investment Advisor
May 2008
Kathleen M. McBride |
No Mimicry Here An aversion to risk and comfort with a portfolio that doesn't mimic indexes has helped Delafield Fund perform well over the long haul. |
Registered Rep.
April 1, 2008
Stan Luxenberg |
Beating The Bear Will active funds eventually wither away? Not likely. Actively run funds are alive and well, and many are beating the current bear market. |
Registered Rep.
April 1, 2008
Stan Luxenberg |
How Low Can You Go? Should investors stay clear of real estate funds until the outlook brightens? Not necessarily. Some signs indicate that the funds could be nearing a bottom. |
Registered Rep.
April 1, 2008
Stan Luxenberg |
Focused And Then Some Competing fiercely for the attention of investors, fund companies have brought out a wave of specialized offerings. Many focus on hot-sounding industries, or growing areas of the emerging markets. |
Financial Advisor
April 2008
Alan Lavine |
Stars Align For Long-Short Funds Long-short mutual funds, designed to deliver returns uncorrelated with equity, so far have been living up to their expectations during the period of stock market turmoil that began last summer. |
Financial Advisor
April 2008
Tracey Longo |
Trump Card International markets outperformed their U.S. counterparts for the sixth straight year last year, although that performance has been tempered and is expected to slow in 2008. These funds take full advantage of that. |
Financial Advisor
April 2008
C. & J. Carty |
Capturing Alpha With ETFs An actively managed portfolio of exchange-traded funds can generate risk-adjusted excess returns above those of its individual funds -- a positive alpha. |
Financial Advisor
April 2008
Bruce W. Fraser |
Strategic Income Funds Can Limit Volatility The traditional safe harbor of fixed income in times of extreme market volatility doesn't mean your clients have to settle for today's low yields on Treasurys. Strategic income funds, often overlooked, offer diversity, reduced risk and the potential for higher returns. |
Financial Advisor
April 2008
Marla Brill |
Where Opportunity Knocks Jerry Jordan, manager of the Jordan Opportunity Fund, sees health care and energy as the themes with strong potential for growth. |
Investment Advisor
April 2008
Melanie Waddell |
Speeding ETFs to Market The Sec is making it easier for exchange-traded funds to come to market. |
Investment Advisor
April 2008
Melanie Waddell |
It's About Time Investment industry executives agree that the SEC's proposed short-form mutual fund prospectus is long overdue. |
Investment Advisor
April 2008 |
Upgrades The year-old Rydex Managed Futures Strategy Fund has attracted approximately $400 million in assets... Bear Stearns Asset Management launched the Bear Stearns Current Yield Fund... Sun Life Financial announced several new investment options... |
Real Estate Portfolio
Mar/Apr 2008
Dees Stribling |
Down, But Not Out Without a doubt, real estate funds moved through some stormy times in 2007. But no storm lasts forever. |
Real Estate Portfolio
Mar/Apr 2008
Erin Corcoran |
Made to Order There are several ways you can fit real estate into your portfolio. By using publicly traded REITs, ETFs, direct investment or commingled funds, you can find the real estate option that works best for your risk and return expectations. |
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