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The Motley Fool June 4, 2009 Dan Caplinger |
These Buyers Will Launch Stocks Higher For fund managers who've kept money on the sidelines this year, the pressure's on to get fully invested -- and when those holdouts start buying, they'll likely push stocks even higher. |
The Motley Fool May 19, 2009 Dan Caplinger |
Only You Can Make This Crucial Choice As tempting as it may be, don't just pass off responsibility for your investments to someone else. Sometimes you'll get just the results you want, but more often, what you buy won't live up to your expectations. |
The Motley Fool March 2, 2010 Selena Maranjian |
Up 150% in a Lost Decade All is not lost -- as long as you keep investing. Our friends at Fidelity Investments recently announced that between 1999 and 2009, employees who regularly contributed to their 401(k) accounts realized a gain of almost 150%. |
The Motley Fool September 30, 2009 Selena Maranjian |
Make Your Own Fund of Funds Some conveniences aren't worth it. |
The Motley Fool June 30, 2009 Dan Caplinger |
Do These Black-Sheep Investments Deserve Your Money? Don't feel compelled to stick with a below-average fund just because it's offered by an otherwise good fund family. |
The Motley Fool June 30, 2011 Selena Maranjian |
Make Money in Junk Bonds the Easy Way There's no need to guess which junk bonds will perform best. |
The Motley Fool September 18, 2008 Selena Maranjian |
Yikes! What Happened to My Fund? Beware of high concentrations when you invest in sector funds. |
The Motley Fool April 9, 2008 Selena Maranjian |
Why I Was Wrong, and Then Wrong Again Don't get all excited about a mutual fund based on its performance in a single year. |
Registered Rep. November 1, 2005 Stan Luxenberg |
Alpha Dogs To protect clients, financial advisors should consider mutual funds with steady results and strong risk-adjusted returns. Sounds obvious, right? But doing so may mean taking a pass on a fund with gaudy returns. Big returns often equate big risks. |
The Motley Fool November 24, 2009 Selena Maranjian |
Focus Fuels a Comeback Recently, a bunch of mutual funds have been enjoying strong comebacks after the devastation of 2008. |
BusinessWeek October 16, 2006 |
Table: Fidelity Funds' Performance Here's a look at how the portfolios of the world's largest mutual fund company have fared against peers and the broader market. |
The Motley Fool June 26, 2009 Dan Caplinger |
The Danger Lurking in Your Portfolio Think you're diversified? Think again. |
The Motley Fool May 22, 2006 Selena Maranjian |
Enter Mutual Fund Land With Just $100 You don't need a lot of money to start investing in mutual funds. |
Registered Rep. May 17, 2013 Stan Luxenberg |
The New Buyers of ETFs Many actively managed mutual funds are now in the market for ETFs for their low costs of ownership and ease of trading. But should shareholders be annoyed? |
The Motley Fool July 1, 2008 Amanda B. Kish |
A Shortcut to Losing Money It's easier than you think to sandbag your portfolio -- and the media's here to help. |
The Motley Fool June 27, 2007 Selena Maranjian |
Meet Some Weird Mutual Funds Here is a look at some odd mutual funds. |
The Motley Fool October 27, 2011 Selena Maranjian |
Mutual Funds That Are in the Closet Are No Bargain Make sure you're not severely overpaying for your funds. The problem is closet-indexing, which happens when a fund has too much in common with the S&P 500 index of 500 of America's biggest companies, or with some other index that serves as its benchmark. |
BusinessWeek September 30, 2010 Charles Stein |
Indexing Helps Vanguard Top Fidelity in Fund Assets The low-cost mutual fund house founded by John Bogle passes the home of once-giant fund Magellan as investors lose faith in stockpickers. |
Financial Advisor June 2005 Alan Lavine |
Market-Neutral Funds For Sideways Markets Inconsistent past performance means advisors must proceed with caution. Unfortunately, the funds with the best longer-term track records are closed to new investors. Nevertheless, their performance is worth noting in case they reopen. |
The Motley Fool June 13, 2008 Julie Clarenbach |
A Retirement Portfolio You Can Set and Forget Don't let lifecycle funds target your retirement without taking a very close look at them. |
The Motley Fool August 20, 2009 Selena Maranjian |
Are These Tomorrow's Top-Performing Funds? Looking for the best mutual funds? There's a new fund-rating system in town that lets you look up a fund and see its grade, from A to F, along with its standing according to four different models. |
The Motley Fool October 16, 2009 Dan Caplinger |
These Investments Just Aren't Worth It Perhaps the most puzzling new product is one that tries to combine the ease of ETFs with the benefits of active management. Active ETFs just don't give you what you're paying for. |
Registered Rep. April 4, 2012 David Trainer |
The Intelligent Investor: How to Find the Best ETFs There are a few easy screens to cull out ETFs that should be avoided and there are lots of free services for determining which ETFs are right for you. |
The Motley Fool April 6, 2006 Rex Moore |
Trim That Disgusting Fat Bloated mutual funds can have trouble keeping up with the market. |
The Motley Fool January 18, 2012 Selena Maranjian |
Make Money in Growing Tech Stocks the Easy Way If you expect technology-oriented companies to thrive over time due to innovations and demands for increased efficiency, the iShares Dow Jones US Technology ETF could save you a lot of trouble. |
The Motley Fool August 17, 2007 Selena Maranjian |
Beware of Seemingly Similar ETFs While ETFs can quickly get you invested in a certain index or a certain sector, beware, because similar-sounding ones are not necessarily so similar, and they won't serve you equally well. |
The Motley Fool December 4, 2007 Selena Maranjian |
How to Own the Fastest-Growing Stocks One good way to own the fastest-growing stocks is through mutual funds. By investing in funds, you let skilled professionals choose the most promising stocks they can find for you. |
BusinessWeek June 26, 2006 Lauren Young |
Mutual Funds: Back In Action Sure, the markets are jittery, but mutual funds are doing a better job for investors since the dot-com smashup. Long-term returns are up, fees are down, and, despite ETFs and hedge funds, money is rolling in. |
On Wall Street April 1, 2010 Elizabeth Wine |
ETFs and Closed-End Funds: New Strategies for a New Day The range of ETFs continues to grow and advisors are graduating to the next level of sophistication, from the traditional use of gaining quick access to a sector or country, to now delivering alpha to clients. |
The Motley Fool January 9, 2007 Selena Maranjian |
Hey -- My Fund Just Crashed! Try not to panic; there just might be a logical explanation. Fund prices are adjusted downward to account for distributions. |
AskMen.com February 18, 2002 Rashmikant Patel |
What Kind Of Investor Are You? It is easy to say that you want to make money in the stock market, but the true question is how much you are willing to risk in order to achieve your investment goal... |
The Motley Fool January 31, 2011 Dan Caplinger |
ETFs You Just Don't Need Active ETFs are coming, but why buy? |
The Motley Fool March 16, 2009 Dan Caplinger |
This Wealth-Killing Blunder Will Cost You Some commentators are arguing that the way millions of investors put money to work in the markets through mutual funds has fundamental flaws that simply can't be overcome. |
BusinessWeek June 10, 2010 Bhaktavatsalam & Condon |
Stock Funds Hit a Rough Patch Eight of the 10 biggest U.S. mutual funds are showing lackluster results, with only Fidelity beating benchmarks. |
The Motley Fool May 18, 2007 Amanda B. Kish |
The Foolish Weekly Fund Wrap-Up Like any large fund shop, Fidelity has some good funds and some not-so-good ones. Before you buy any Fidelity fund, be sure to examine the fund on its own merits. |
The Motley Fool July 29, 2011 Rich Smith |
Corning Cowed Things were looking good for a while, but for now, the bull thesis on Corning is back on hold. |
The Motley Fool January 28, 2009 John Rosevear |
Don't Miss This New Opportunity There are a lot of benefits to owning good actively managed funds during periods of market turmoil -- and now some of the best ones are open to new investors again. |
The Motley Fool June 14, 2011 Dan Caplinger |
Who Sneaked These High-Risk Stocks Into Your Portfolio? Although mutual funds don't have to disclose their holdings all that often, most do on a quarterly basis -- so take a quick look and see what changes your fund managers have made. |
The Motley Fool November 7, 2011 Selena Maranjian |
Contradictions in Investing: When Big Is Bad Warren Buffett has this problem, too. When seeking great funds, we need to keep in mind that massive size can be a problem or at least a challenge for mutual funds. |
Financial Planning September 1, 2006 David A. Twibell |
When Neutral Is Good Market-neutral funds seek to minimize market risk while generating equity-like returns. |
Registered Rep. March 30, 2006 John Churchill |
Mutual Fund Performance Overstated, Says Study Actively managed mutual funds have done worse than is generally thought. Those, at least, are the findings of a study released yesterday covering a ten-year period of performance figures reported by Morningstar. |
The Motley Fool June 24, 2010 Dan Caplinger |
The Hidden Danger in Your Portfolio You can't count on a name. In trying to distinguish themselves, some mutual funds go over the line and choose investments that don't fit in with what you'd guess from the fund's name. |
The Motley Fool July 30, 2008 Colleen Paulson |
Ford Will Burn Your Portfolio Ford hasn't posted a return on invested capital above 2% since 1999. With a share price in the doldrums, it seems that investors the market over agree that this is a company to avoid. |
The Motley Fool January 12, 2012 John Grgurich |
Hold Off Buying This Tech Stock Corning makes Gorilla Glass, and its stock should be flying high but isn't. What happened, and what can help it climb back up? |
The Motley Fool August 22, 2007 Amanda B. Kish |
Funds That Hit the Target More and more firms and retirement plans are beginning to offer target-date funds, asset-allocation funds that are designated by the year in which an investor plans to retire. Are they right for you? |
BusinessWeek April 17, 2006 Gene G. Marcial |
Corning Turns A Corner Corning has bounced back by shifting its focus to the liquid-crystal business. |
The Motley Fool August 21, 2007 Nathan Alderman |
4 Keys to Easier Investing Mystified by mutual funds? Here's what to look for. Once you know these four key elements to seek out when judging a fund, you'll be ready to start your own search to build your perfect fund portfolio. |
IndustryWeek April 18, 2012 |
Innovation Keeps Corning in a Glass by Itself The maker of Gorilla Glass is applying more than a century and a half of R&D experience to shape its next 160 years. |
Financial Planning August 1, 2005 Robert Hertzberg |
Location, Location, Location Why real-estate funds were the right place for money in the second quarter... The love affair with current income continues... Investors have become increasingly focused on international securities... etc. |
Registered Rep. November 1, 2004 Stan Luxenberg |
The Retiring Kind Keeping the loyalty of retirees is urgent business for fund companies. Retaining retirees is particularly crucial for Fidelity. |