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Financial Advisor December 2004 Raymond Fazzi |
Are Low Returns Here To Stay? With the economy on course for more than 3% growth this year, there is reason to hope for sustained growth in 2005. Some market watchers say that as investors come to grips with low returns, there may be a movement of investment dollars from passive to active management vehicles. |
The Motley Fool July 16, 2007 Amanda B. Kish |
Large Caps Making a Comeback? So how can smart investors best capitalize on any coming large-cap rebound? Well, don't abandon small caps completely. |
Financial Advisor April 2006 Raymond Fazzi |
Signals Point To Growth Investors, it seems, are still not ready to fully embrace growth equities -- a wariness that some market watchers say may be due to a lingering backlash to the technology collapse of 2000, as well as continued uncertainties about the economy. |
Financial Advisor February 2005 Raymond Fazzi |
A Late Inning Comeback Forget predictions, trends and momentum. Trying to predict the stock market of 2004 would have been impossible. A fourth-quarter rally saved the year for mutual funds. Even REITs, which some were expecting to run out of steam, finished at the top. |
Financial Advisor August 2009 Marla Brill |
Small-Cap Bounty Small-cap ETFs have grown in number and offer some interesting choices. |
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 Advisor May 2009 Raymond Fazzi |
Growth At A Discount Global financial misery has a lot of large-cap growth investors thinking in terms of value. |
Financial Advisor April 2006 Raymond Fazzi |
A Look At New Horizons At a time when the margin for error is growing thinner and thinner in investment management circles, some are asking whether advisors and their clients are adequately served by cap-weighted benchmarks. |
The Motley Fool May 24, 2011 Amanda B. Kish |
This ETF Sector Is Getting Pricey While large-cap stocks dominated in the late 1990s, small-cap stocks have had a truly amazing run in the decade since then. |
Financial Advisor October 2005 Raymond Fazzi |
Small Caps Look To Extend Streak Performing like Wall Street's version of The Little Engine That Could, small-cap equities are in a neck-and-neck race to outperform the large-cap sector for the sixth straight year. |
Financial Advisor May 2007 Eric Rasmussen |
Looking At The Value Of Everything Will value stock funds continue to outpace growth? |
Financial Advisor April 2004 Jeff Schlegel |
Seeing More Growth In Growth Observers predict continuing opportunities in growth funds this year. |
Financial Advisor October 2008 Jeff Schlegel |
Small-Cap Surprise This was supposed to be the year of the large-cap stock. A weak U.S. economy in the throes of a wholesale financial quagmire should have spelled trouble for small caps with their mostly domestic focus. Oh well, so much for predictions. |
Financial Advisor March 2006 Jeff Schlegel |
Waiting For Life In Large Caps History and valuations offer compelling reasons to expect a resurrection in large-cap stocks, say fund managers and financial strategists. |
Investment Advisor February 2007 Kara Stapleton |
Small Caps On Top Again The small-cap Russell 2000 Index made a comeback in 2006. |
Financial Planning December 1, 2005 Donald Jay Korn |
Seven-Year Hitch? Small-cap stocks have been big winners ever since the last century, but keeping the good times rolling could be a major challenge for financial planners. |
Financial Advisor May 2006 Raymond Fazzi |
The Value Run Continues While investors may be waiting for some exciting developments in the growth arena, it hasn't happened yet. And as equities continue down their boring single-digit-return path, value managers continue to largely outperform their growth counterparts. |
Financial Advisor February 2004 Raymond Fazzi |
Mutual Funds Finally Start To Rebound But how long will the rally last? |
Financial Advisor June 2004 Kevin M. Wilson |
Why Value Beats Growth Portfolios using asset allocation combined with value investing produce better financial results. How should you advise clients to invest? |
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. |
Investment Advisor November 2005 Palash R. Ghosh |
S&P Mutual Fund Sector Focus: Mid-Cap Value Funds Tap Rich Vein For the five-year period through the end of September 2005, the average mid-cap value fund registered an average annualized return of nearly 10.0%, versus a 1.5% drop for the S&P 500: RS Value Fund... Wiley Mid-Cap Value Fund... etc. |
Investment Advisor October 2005 Ben Warwick |
The Puzzler: Large Cap or Small? We all know that when it comes to stocks, size matters. But bigger isn't always better, especially when the subject under discussion is the equity market. |
Investment Advisor January 2006 Kathleen M. McBride |
Many Happy Returns Stratton Growth Fund has displayed a disciplined approach to all-cap value investing that has outperformed for decades. |
Financial Advisor June 2006 Marla Brill |
Going Everywhere For the first time in its five-year history, Thornburg Core Growth Fund -- a multicap growth fund that usually leans toward small- and mid-cap stocks -- is finding more enticing investment opportunities in larger companies. |
Financial Planning October 1, 2005 |
Mutual Fund Monitor A logical question for investors to ask themselves is: Given the massive and sustained underperformance of growth stocks, is this asset class sufficiently compelling to justify a tactical overweighting? |
Financial Advisor December 2006 Raymond Fazzi |
Flying Blind Money managers find themselves vexed about the U.S. economy's direction. |
Financial Advisor April 2006 Blank & Psoras |
When Sin Is Superior Eliminating vice stocks from portfolios may mean lower returns. |
Financial Planning May 1, 2006 Elizabeth O'Brien |
Fund Manager Profile: Shawn Be Nimble Touchstone Large Cap Growth keeps beating its peers and the S&P by using a flexible model and filtering through many fundamental factors. |
Financial Advisor April 2007 Jeff Schlegel |
Does Growth Investing Matter? Growth stocks are expected to outperform, but good luck figuring out what they are. |
Registered Rep. July 1, 2006 Stan Luxenberg |
Fundamental Indexing During the 1990s, S&P 500 index funds were all the rage -- and, for most core investments, the bogey to beat. But lately the index has been offering stingy returns. |
Financial Advisor February 2007 Raymond Fazzi |
Surprisingly Few Surprises Investment strategies in the mutual fund market that worked in 2005 more often than not worked out just as well, or even better, in 2006. |
BusinessWeek January 24, 2005 |
Searching for "Emerging Quality" Goldman Sachs Mid-Cap Value's Eileen Rominger focuses on cheaply priced stocks with potential for positive change. |
Financial Planning January 1, 2006 Donald Jay Korn |
Outlook 2006 An informal survey of investment strategists found an upbeat economic outlook for 2006: Panic and Euphoria... Has Technology's Time Come?... Bond Parsing... Overseas Picture... Fiscal Forecast... |
Financial Planning January 1, 2007 Donald Jay Korn |
Outlook 2007: A Year for the Big Guys? An economic slowdown is likely to spur a flight to quality, as investors shift their focus to the most powerful domestic large caps. |
Financial Advisor June 2005 Marla Brill |
Fishing For Fallen Angels Putnam's David King shops for bargains among tarnished growth stocks. |
The Motley Fool February 25, 2009 Selena Maranjian |
Index Funds Are Hard to Beat An eye-opening new study from Standard & Poor's reveals that the majority of managed funds fail to outperform simple index funds. That's right -- funds run by actual human beings still can't beat a copycat strategy of matching a broad index's holdings. |
Financial Advisor December 2003 Tracey Longo |
Investment Outlook Where the best and brightest see things headed in 2004. |
BusinessWeek July 18, 2005 Adrienne Carter |
Pushing Index Funds A Bit Higher Mutual funds that start with indexing and then tweak here and there to help increase returns. |
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. |
Registered Rep. July 1, 2006 David A. Geracioti |
The 20-Year Itch An interview with Jim O'Shaughnessy on his book, Predicting the Markets of Tomorrow who tells financial advisors if they think they can protect clients by putting them in "safe" large-cap stocks or in, say, an S&P 500 index fund, they'll be disappointed. |
The Motley Fool April 7, 2005 Rick Aristotle Munarriz |
Three Funds for Stock Investors Even the most hardcore equity buffs can afford to own some mutual funds. Oakmark International Fund... Arbitrage Fund... Gateway Fund... |
Financial Planning June 1, 2005 Craig L. Israelsen |
Three's Not a Crowd How passive fund investors can get the best exposure to the whole U.S. market. |
The Motley Fool July 28, 2010 Jared Cummans |
Simplifying Investing: 5 All Cap ETF Options Get exposure in all the right places. |
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. |
BusinessWeek August 2, 2004 Lauren Young |
Mutual Funds: Keeping Fit In A Flat Market It's hard to draw a bead on the stock market these days. With the major equity indexes flat for the year, it feels like neither the bulls nor the bears are in charge. So where does that leave an investor in search of a few good places to stash some cash? |
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 March 1, 2004 Vickers, Henry & Miller |
Is The Bull Ready To Catch Its Breath? Valuations aren't really out of whack -- and a correction may be a buying opportunity. Stocks have been on a tear since they bottomed out last March. |
Financial Advisor February 2007 Marla Brill |
Staying In Front Fund manager Jim Margard thinks small-company stock will outperform this year -- barely. |
Financial Planning January 1, 2005 Bernard R. Horn |
Global Goodies It's not risky to invest overseas--in fact, it's riskier not to. Exchange rates and political and economic risks can mitigate returns, but experienced global equity managers know how to navigate foreign markets by making solid stock picks. |
The Motley Fool June 29, 2007 Amanda B. Kish |
The Best Enhanced Index Funds: Part 2 More top funds with a return-boosting twist: Calvert Large Cap Growth... Vanguard Growth & Income... |