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Financial Planning March 1, 2005 Israelsen & Clement	Of Stocks and Funds Financial advisers need to explain to their clients that diversification can be a double-edged sword; protection against loss can sometimes insulate against return. Here's a performance comparison of individual stocks vs. equity funds in 2004.
Financial Planning January 1, 2007 Craig L. Israelsen	Really Real Returns A new metric, Investor Return, measures how much of a mutual fund's performance gets into investors' pockets.
Financial Planning October 2, 2007 Craig L. Israelsen	Smoothing the Path When comparing active and passive management, financial planners should look at the performance of the whole portfolio. What you find may surprise you.
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Investment Advisor January 2006 Callahan & Howard	Risky Business The primary goal of financial advisors is to make life less risky for clients. But using style boxes to determine risk in a portfolio is a fool's errand.
BusinessWeek May 3, 2004 Lauren Young	Small-Caps That Still Want You Many hot small-company stock funds are closed to newcomers. Check out these small-cap funds that still welcome new investors.
Investment Advisor January 2006 Kathleen M. McBride	Silk Purses Medal winning fund managers in 2005 drilled for returns and explored overseas. The best performing fund in any of S&P's categories for 2005 is the BlackRock Global Resources Portfolio/Institutional.
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Investment Advisor August 2005 Angelina Dance	S&P Mutual Fund Sector Focus: Small-Cap Growth Still Packing a Punch Growth investing, particularly in the small-cap sector, has traditionally been considered a high-risk approach, yet in the past several years has proven to be rewarding.
Financial Planning February 1, 2007 Steve Savage	Short-Term Slumps Many great managers share common traits, including a willingness to own unpopular names, to make decisions based on long-term analysis and to maintain the discipline to ignore painful shorter-term market swings. This ability to ignore painful shorter-term swings is being tested as we speak.
BusinessWeek August 27, 2009	Picking Winners All of these actively managed funds get an A for stewardship from Morningstar, thanks to their top-notch management companies and fees that are below-average for their fund category
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The Motley Fool May 31, 2007 Amanda B. Kish	The Best Closed Mutual Funds: Part 2 You might still have a shot at these superior small-cap funds: Royce Premier... Rainier Small/Mid Cap... American Century Small-Cap Value...
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Financial Advisor September 2009 Raymond Fazzi	A Small Risk Conventional wisdom says small caps are riskier than their large-cap counterparts, but they remain a basic building block in retirement portfolios.
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The Motley Fool April 4, 2007 Amanda B. Kish	Finding Needles in Funds' Haystack 7,000 reasons to separate good funds from bad ones. Too often, investors look first for funds with the highest recent returns, then perform due diligence only on funds at the top of that list.
Investment Advisor September 2005 Callahan & Howard	Outside the Box Style boxes place artificial constraints on portfolio managers that may lead to underperformance. Instead, the authors argue, we should set managers free to pursue their unique styles.
Financial Planning August 1, 2006 Craig L. Israelsen	Alpha in the Box The search for Shangri-La pales in comparison to the quest for funds that consistently deliver high alpha. The fundamental question for financial advisors: Does alpha differ across the nine Morningstar style boxes?
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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.
Entrepreneur July 2005 Dian Vujovich	The Small Time Investing in small-cap funds can pay off big.
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Financial Planning September 1, 2006 Scott A. Leonard	The Smaller, the Better Rumors that the small-cap effect is dead are most definitely premature. By focusing on the smallest of the small caps, financial advisors can see that the small-cap effect appears to be alive and well. You just need to know where to look for it.
The Motley Fool August 29, 2007 Amanda B. Kish	The Best Small-Cap ETFs These exchange-traded funds win the best-in-class award. Let's take a closer look at the iShares Russell 2000 Index ETF, the Vanguard Small-Cap ETF, the iShares Morningstar Small Core ETF, the iShares S&P 600 Value ETF, and the Vanguard Small-Cap Growth ETF.
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