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The Motley Fool April 13, 2004 Shannon Zimmerman	Are Your Funds Worth Owning? Performance and experience are two musts for any champion fund. Find out what it takes to be a true fund champ. A key ingredient: an experienced manager with a track record of beating the S&P 500. Would your fund measure up?
The Motley Fool June 8, 2004 Shannon Zimmerman	The Case for Mutual Funds Our resident fund jockey takes on all doubters. Are mutual funds a good investment, or just a way to underperform?
The Motley Fool August 10, 2004 Shannon Zimmerman	Strategies for Troubled Times Compared with individual stocks, mutual funds boast a number of built-in advantages when it comes to weathering turbulent times.
The Motley Fool January 14, 2005 Shannon Zimmerman	ETF Tip No. 4: Get Smart Why it's smart to own actively and passively managed funds.
The Motley Fool June 22, 2004 Shannon Zimmerman	Get Paid to Invest - in Junk Do you think income investing is just for stock jocks? Well, mutual funds generate income, too, and they may be just the thing for savvy investors. Here's one way to clip some mighty fat coupons without risking the farm.
The Motley Fool May 11, 2005 Shannon Zimmerman	The Case for Mutual Funds Picking the right fund is every bit as important as picking the right stock, if not more so.
The Motley Fool January 4, 2005 Shannon Zimmerman	Are Your Funds Worth Owning? There's nothing magical or intrinsically worthwhile about a mutual fund in itself. A fund is only as good as the folks picking the investments. How does your fund measure up?
The Motley Fool March 17, 2004 David Gardner	Finding the Best Funds David Gardner rolls out a new service to help you climb to the top of the mutual fund heap.
The Motley Fool August 17, 2004 Shannon Zimmerman	Time to Buy? The market downturn this summer has handed smart fund investors a world-class opportunity to go shopping down the equity market's large-cap growth aisle.
The Motley Fool March 25, 2004 Shannon Zimmerman	You Can Beat the Market Nobody said you have to invest in the "typical" mutual fund. The author thinks that outperforming with funds is the best revenge.
The Motley Fool May 11, 2004 Shannon Zimmerman	Building the Perfect Portfolio Smart asset allocation is critical to successful fund investing. Staying the course is a fine idea, but because your goals and tolerance for risk are bound to change over time, the perfect portfolio will always be a work in progress.
The Motley Fool August 3, 2004 Shannon Zimmerman	Fund Fight When faced with the question of whether to invest in either (a) index funds or (b) actively managed picks, there's no need to settle for a zero-sum solution. You can invest in both.
The Motley Fool November 23, 2004 Shannon Zimmerman	The Case for Mutual Funds Investors willing to do their homework can whip up on the Wise with one hand tied behind their checkbooks. Picking the right fund is every bit as important as picking the right stock, if not more so.
The Motley Fool June 28, 2005 Shannon Zimmerman	Focus on Fees When it comes to mutual funds, it pays to be a cheapskate. Take a look at the funds you currently own. Are you paying for the "privilege" of underperformance? If so, it could be time for a mutual fund makeover.
The Motley Fool September 14, 2004 Tim Beyers	Finding Profitable Funds In this Q & A, Champion Funds chief analyst Shannon Zimmerman covers how he looks for funds, why sector funds might not be a good bet, and whether or not the fund scandal is really winding down.
The Motley Fool January 11, 2005 Shannon Zimmerman	You Can Beat the Market Who says you have to invest in the "typical" fund? Given that typical fund managers struggle to keep pace with a passively managed index, it's a wonder more investors haven't abandoned mutual funds altogether.
The Motley Fool May 18, 2004 Shannon Zimmerman	When Bad Things Happen to Good Funds The author and analyst of Motley Fool Champion Funds explains that when it comes to investing in mutual funds, this glass really is half-full.
The Motley Fool May 4, 2004 Shannon Zimmerman	Big Discipline, Big Gains To be a true champ, a fund needs a proven approach to stock picking. To make the cut, a mutual fund needs to come equipped with a stock-picking strategy that's passed the test of time.
The Motley Fool January 25, 2005 Selena Maranjian	Lumpy Results Ahead Don't expect smooth sailing when you're investing. In the short run, the stock market is especially volatile, and your performance over a few months could be a gain of 25%, or a loss of 18%, or something else.
The Motley Fool March 19, 2004 Rick Aristotle Munarriz	3 Tasty Fund Plays Not all mutual funds are created equal or equally bad.
The Motley Fool December 22, 2003 Mathew Emmert	REIT-allocate Your Portfolio A look at the diversification and income-producing benefits of Real Estate Investment Trusts (REITs), along with some conservative strategies for putting REITs to work in your portfolio.
The Motley Fool October 5, 2004 Shannon Zimmerman	Performance-Tested Funds When you're looking for a way to gauge the consistency of a fund's performance, not to mention how successful a management team has been at staving off loss and keeping volatility in check, calendar-year returns make a good yardstick.
The Motley Fool January 25, 2005 Shannon Zimmerman	Time to Buy Here's a tip for fortifying your portfolio during troubled times: Growth funds are on sale. Get 'em while they're not hot.
The Motley Fool June 10, 2004 Selena Maranjian	Profiting From My Mistakes If you want to make a profit, then do as I say, not as I've done. The author has been investing for a decade now, and she's made her share of missteps along the way. Take time to learn from her mistakes so you can avoid the same pitfalls.
The Motley Fool November 30, 2004 Shannon Zimmerman	We're Beating the Market. Are You? A Champion Funds performance update.
The Motley Fool May 4, 2004 Zeke Ashton	All You Need to Know for Value Investing The author rounds out the 10 commandments of value investing. In the final installment of a three-part series on value investing's key principles, he examines three key concepts -- absolute returns, monitoring the business, and knowing when to sell.
The Motley Fool December 7, 2004 David Gardner	Finding the Best Funds Here's how you can climb to the top of the mutual fund heap.
The Motley Fool June 15, 2004 Shannon Zimmerman	Is It Time to Sell? Here's the answer to one of the toughest questions fund investors face - when is it time to move on?
The Motley Fool July 28, 2004 Bill Mann	Index Funds: Still Your Best Bet So we're running to actively managed funds now? Not so fast, my friend. When Nathan Slaughter pointed his guns at the trusty, old index fund, many had to stop and ask whether The Motley Fool was abandoning one of its oldest principles.
The Motley Fool July 6, 2004 Shannon Zimmerman	The IAA Revolution Asset allocation is a huge part of intelligent investing, but it barely makes a blip on the financial media's radar screen. Mutual funds make it easy to diversify across market cap and style.
AskMen.com April 14, 2002 Rashmikant Patel	Starting A Portfolio Investors can easily understand and build a portfolio that conforms to their needs...
The Motley Fool May 13, 2005 Selena Maranjian	Mutual Funds to Save You If your financial future is shaky, certain mutual funds can save you. Before you invest in any mutual fund, make sure you've studied it well -- either on your own or with some help.
The Motley Fool April 25, 2005 Shannon Zimmerman	You Can Beat the Market Nobody said you have to invest in the "typical" mutual fund. Given that typical fund managers struggle to keep pace with a passively managed index, it's a wonder more investors haven't abandoned mutual funds altogether.
The Motley Fool July 5, 2005 Shannon Zimmerman	Focus on Strategy Do you know what your fund manager is up to? Does he? As important as it is, a cheap price tag is hardly enough for a fund to make the grade.
The Motley Fool June 26, 2009 Dan Caplinger	The Danger Lurking in Your Portfolio Think you're diversified? Think again.
The Motley Fool August 31, 2004 Shannon Zimmerman	Fortify Your Portfolio Pointers on what to look for when you go bond-fund shopping.
The Motley Fool May 26, 2004 Tom Gardner	Finding Lynch's 10-Baggers There's a method to finding tomorrow's home runs. The author has made it his mission to uncover the best underfollowed, underappreciated companies before Wall Street gets on board.
The Motley Fool May 3, 2005 Shannon Zimmerman	A Big Change at Vanguard Indexing whiz Gus Sauter passes the baton. Should you care?
The Motley Fool June 7, 2005 Shannon Zimmerman	Secrets of Successful Fund Managers An oft-overlooked key point in the great stocks vs. mutual funds debate is that investing is never an either/or proposition.
The Motley Fool March 24, 2005 Nathan Slaughter	Mutual Fund Meltdown Have you assembled your funds in a carefully orchestrated portfolio or in a haphazard collection? Collecting mutual funds is not a safe pastime. It's a financial disaster waiting to happen.
The Motley Fool August 8, 2006 Shannon Zimmerman	Beat the Market in Your Sleep Outperform without all that pesky volatility. The Vanguard 500 Index a world-class and dirt cheap S&P tracker that provides quick and easy exposure to such household names as Microsoft, General Electric, and IBM -- has notched an annualized gain of 12%.
The Motley Fool December 14, 2004 Shannon Zimmerman	Two Great Gift Funds Giving the gift of investing? Consider this pair of stocking stuffers. Vanguard Total Stock Market... Royce TrustShares...
The Motley Fool July 14, 2006 Shannon Zimmerman	Smart Ways to Get Started, Part 2 Thanks to the market's recent choppiness, many small-cap companies are currently trading at steep discounts relative to their respective 52-week highs. And that's good news -- at least if you're an investing cheapskate.
The Motley Fool December 16, 2005 Steven Mallas	You've Got a Gain. Now What? Part 2 Using a mutual fund not just as an investment vehicle, but as a strategy for reinvesting gains made from individual stocks makes building up fund positions a breeze.
The Motley Fool August 13, 2004 Tom Gardner	Should You Own 50 Stocks? The majority of individual investors in stocks are still in learning mode and should have very diversified portfolios.
The Motley Fool March 14, 2006 Shannon Zimmerman	Investment Strategery Investors, when it comes to diversification, don't forget about strategy -- especially when investing in mutual funds.
The Motley Fool May 11, 2004 Selena Maranjian	Good vs. Evil Mutual Funds In the battle of good and evil, evil is winning.
The Motley Fool April 12, 2004 Mathew Emmert	Beat the Market With Less Risk You can achieve maximum returns without taking on the maximum risk. Learn how to make money in the stock market and sleep well at night, too.
The Motley Fool September 9, 2004 Rick Aristotle Munarriz	Index Fund Fire Sale Index funds are lowering their fees, and you are the winner.
The Motley Fool April 13, 2004 Selena Maranjian	Wondering About Magellan A recent Money magazine article asked a question that's on the minds of many mutual fund investors: "Can Magellan Bounce Back?"