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April 1, 2013
Craig L. Israelsen |
Value vs. Growth: Which Investing Strategy Is Better? How do returns from these two types of equities compare? We test them - and find a real difference in performance.   |
Financial Planning
October 1, 2011
Craig L. Israelsen |
Multiply Returns by Dividing Gaining exposure to U.S. stocks by using three equally weighted index funds produced better performance than a single mega-market index fund during the Lost Decade of 2001 to 2010. |
The Motley Fool
April 9, 2007
Amanda B. Kish |
Are "Excellent" Funds Foolish? Part 2 This five-part series takes a closer look at the 24 funds highlighted in the 2007 Business Week/Standard & Poor's Excellence in Fund Management Awards. Mid-cap growth... Two good small-cap picks... |
The Motley Fool
March 23, 2009
Chris Jones |
Honey, They Shrunk My Market Cap How deteriorating market capitalizations change portfolio managers' investment universes. |
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
March 1, 2012
Craig L. Israelsen |
Small Thoughts The benefit of investing in small U.S. stocks is clear. Over the 42-year period from Jan. 1, 1970, to Dec. 31, 2011, a $10,000 investment in large U.S. stocks would have grown to $507,362. |
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. |
Financial Planning
June 1, 2009
Craig L. Israelsen |
The Value Premium While industry experts might be trumpeting growth as the place to be when the market rebounds, advisors should remember that longer-term, the market values value. |
The Motley Fool
December 13, 2006
Bill Barker |
70 Times Better Than the Next Microsoft There are thousands of small-cap value plays that might not carry the wallop of a potential Microsoft over the short term, but over many decades, and taken as a group -- wow! |
Financial Planning
January 1, 2006
Craig L. Israelsen |
Think Inside the Box The many investments within a style box are not all alike. Market-cap variance can lead to significant performance differences within style boxes -- particularly among large-cap funds. |
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. |
The Motley Fool
September 10, 2007
Amanda B. Kish |
A Fund Changes Its Stripes The FBR Small-Cap Fund is changing its mandate, lifting its market cap limitations, re-creating the fund as an all-cap strategy, and changing its name to the FBR Focus Fund, all without giving investors a say. |
Financial Planning
March 1, 2012
Brian J. Lazorishak |
Mid-Cap, Big Return Over a 10-, 20- and 30-year period ending last year, mid-caps (generally defined as issues with market capitalizations of $1 billion to $15 billion) have outperformed both large-caps and small-caps on an absolute basis. |
The Motley Fool
May 20, 2009
Selena Maranjian |
The Market Cap Shortcut An easy way to get a quick handle on a company's valuation. |
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. |
Registered Rep.
December 28, 2010
Stan Luxenberg |
The Rodney Dangerfield Asset Class Mid-cap stocks and funds get no respect. Many investors overweight small and large stocks -- while giving short shrift to mid caps. |
Investment Advisor
August 2009
Vaughan Scully |
The ETF Advisor: Those Outperforming Small Caps Exchange traded funds offer a relatively convenient and cost-effective way to invest in small cap stocks. |
Financial Planning
February 1, 2012
Craig L. Israelsen |
Mid-Cap's Role Mid-cap U.S. equity is almost always included when advisors and investors assemble diversified portfolios. One way to see if this popularity is justified is to do an in-depth survey of mid-cap funds, and to see how these funds affect portfolio performance. |
The Motley Fool
December 22, 2005
Bill Barker |
50 Years of Market Whomping Time-tested strategies are good all the time. Small caps had a better year than large caps -- again. And value stocks outperformed growth stocks -- again. |
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 |
Financial Advisor
February 2007
Marla Brill |
Staying In Front Fund manager Jim Margard thinks small-company stock will outperform this year -- barely. |
The Motley Fool
December 23, 2009
Amanda B. Kish |
Royce's New Market Sweet Spot Small-cap investing experts Royce & Associates recently announced that they will launch their first mid-cap fund, but the move is not too much of a stretch. |
Financial Planning
April 1, 2006
Susan B. Weiner |
The Middle Ground Mid-cap stocks have yet to command as much respect from advisers and investors as their small- and large-cap peers. Now mid-cap stocks find themselves in an unusual place -- the spotlight -- after a strong showing in 2005. |
The Motley Fool
February 19, 2010
Amanda B. Kish |
Are Insiders Buying or Selling? These signs are encouraging for some companies, but not others. |
The Motley Fool
June 14, 2011
Adam J. Wiederman |
Prevent Large Caps from Killing Your Returns Investors can easily gain some additional income from large caps by trading options. |
Investment Advisor
January 2007
Palash R. Ghosh |
Wearing Many Caps Equity mutual funds that invest without regard to market-cap size are difficult to characterize -- for they possess the stability of larger-cap stocks, the growing maturity of mid-cap issues, as well as the volatility and high potential of smaller-cap names. |
The Motley Fool
December 11, 2009
Dan Caplinger |
Don't Ignore These Winners in 2010 Overlooking mid-cap stocks can cost you big profits. |
Registered Rep.
December 1, 2005
John Churchill |
The Big Calm Having trouble convincing clients that the equity market isn't such a wild place? Give them a quick history lesson: Turns out that the past two years have been some of the least volatile since 1996. |
The Motley Fool
October 15, 2007
Selena Maranjian |
When Funds Undergo Personality Changes The fund you own may not be the fund you bought. How much should that worry you? |
The Motley Fool
November 16, 2006
Brian Richards |
The Best ETF for 2007: Vanguard Small-Cap Value If 70 years of results are good enough for you, this ETF is worth checking out. |
Financial Advisor
October 2007
Bruce W. Fraser |
Thinking Small Small-cap funds should be in any portfolio, so don't let recent underperformance scare away clients. |
The Motley Fool
April 4, 2008
Brian Richards |
Avoid This Ticker ... for Now Vanguard Small Cap Value is an ETF to avoid for now, although it still may be a winning fund for patient long-term owners. |
Financial Planning
September 1, 2006
Craig L. Israelsen |
Alpha Up and Down If you select mutual funds on the basis of their alpha, you may want to check how consistent those alphas really are. |
The Motley Fool
March 11, 2010
Amanda B. Kish |
Do You Own This Top-Performing Investment? Mid-cap stocks can give you much better than middling returns. |
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. |
Financial Advisor
August 2009
Marla Brill |
Small-Cap Bounty Small-cap ETFs have grown in number and offer some interesting choices. |
Entrepreneur
November 2006
Dian Vujovich |
Track All-Star Highly ranked small cap shows steady growth. |
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. |
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
February 2, 2011
Amanda B. Kish |
Get Into These Investments While You Can Rising asset levels will nudge many hot-performing small-cap funds to close their doors this year. So if you want in on some terrific funds take action sooner rather than later. |
The Motley Fool
June 2, 2011
Eben Esterhuizen |
Buy and Hold: Do These Profitable Small-Cap Stocks Have Long-Term Potential? Can these stocks can ride out the near-term market volatility?: ChinaCast Education... Rockville Financial... Shuffle Master... |
The Motley Fool
April 29, 2005
Bill Barker |
Using a Chimp to Improve Your Returns Jeremy Siegel's constant posits that annual real returns for the stock market over the long term will always be 6.5% to 7% per year. But there's a way for you to improve on that. |
Financial Advisor
March 2005
Craig L. Israelsen |
Benchmark Checkup Comparing equity mutual fund returns to an index can be very deceiving. |
Financial Planning
November 1, 2005
Craig L. Israelsen |
Ways of Means Committee There's a critical difference between arithmetic and geometric means when calculating average annualized return. As the standard deviation (or volatility) of annual returns increases, the arithmetic mean grows larger than (and therefore, further away from) the correct geometric mean. |
The Motley Fool
April 6, 2011
Eben Esterhuizen |
You Don't Know These Tech Stocks, but Hedge Funds Are Buying Them Like Crazy Are these tech stocks worth a look? |
Financial Planning
February 1, 2010
Craig L. Israelsen |
It's in the Past Can correlations between mutual funds' past performance and risks tell us anything about their future? |
Financial Advisor
October 2006
Tracey Longo |
Alive And Kicking Four small-cap managers talk about opportunities and challenges ahead. Whitney George, managing director and senior portfolio manager of Royce & Associates... Chris Cordaro, chief investment officer at RegentAtlantic Capital... etc. |
Financial Planning
December 1, 2005
Craig L. Israelsen |
Keeping it in Perspective How often and by how much does growth outperform value? |
Financial Advisor
April 2004
Jeff Schlegel |
Seeing More Growth In Growth Observers predict continuing opportunities in growth funds this year. |
The Motley Fool
August 19, 2008
Dan Caplinger |
How Risky Are Your Stocks? To know what the future may bring, you can't just look at past returns. |
