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The Motley Fool
September 7, 2011
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The Motley Fool
November 7, 2011
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Hold On to These Lagging Investments These two funds are worth keeping. |
The Motley Fool
May 2, 2011
Amanda B. Kish |
Are Big Bets Sinking Fairholme? Recent stumbles mar manager Bruce Berkowitz's long-term success. |
The Motley Fool
May 31, 2011
Dan Caplinger |
How to Make the Most From Your Funds Investors make big mistakes with their mutual funds. Here's how to avoid them. |
The Motley Fool
June 13, 2011
Amanda B. Kish |
Why You Shouldn't Buy Top-Performing Investments Don't let short-run price movements or performance get you off track. Find good managers and good funds, and stick with them as a part of your long-run asset allocation. |
The Motley Fool
November 17, 2011
Amanda B. Kish |
Bill Miller Heads for the Exit The legendary investor is throwing in the towel. What lessons have we learned? |
The Motley Fool
August 16, 2011
Amanda B. Kish |
Yale Puts the Smackdown on These Investments While the mutual fund industry does indeed have many problems and pitfalls, if investors are careful to choose the right funds and hold them for the long run, they can still come out ahead of the game. |
The Motley Fool
August 12, 2008
Julie Clarenbach |
How to Buy Winners Set yourself up for big gains. |
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
August 22, 2011
Amanda B. Kish |
How to Lose Money in a Volatile Market Unless you want to lose a lot more money from trying to time the market, don't flee stocks when the going gets rough. |
The Motley Fool
November 1, 2010
Amanda B. Kish |
An Investment Guru's New Trick Bruce Berkowitz's latest fund trades safety for flexibility. |
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. |
Entrepreneur
June 2004
Scott Bernard Nelson |
Rooting Around When you're looking to invest in a mutual fund, dig deeper than past performance. |
Financial Planning
August 1, 2010
Donna Mitchell |
Yield at Any Price? Shocked from the Flash Crash, nervous about the potential fallout from the European sovereign debt crisis and distressed about high unemployment, investors fled equity mutual fund categories and poured their money into fixed income. |
The Motley Fool
June 14, 2011
Matt Koppenheffer |
Stocks for a Second-Half Comeback Could these top fund managers score a second-half comeback? |
The Motley Fool
August 15, 2007
Amanda B. Kish |
2 Growth Funds You Should Own Now Growth stocks are set to take off; here's how to get in on the ground floor. Most growth stocks have a lot of room to run, and investors who stock up now are likely to rep the benefits. |
BusinessWeek
June 24, 2010
Charles Stein |
Money Manager Ken Heebner: A Hot Touch Gone Cold Heebner's CGM Focus, once the best-performing mutual fund, has lagged its rivals since 2008. |
The Motley Fool
February 16, 2010
Amanda B. Kish |
Investors Miss the Boat Again Don't get left standing on the pier, watching the slow boat to riches sail without you. look to the relatively undervalued corners of the market for opportunities. |
The Motley Fool
July 25, 2008
Zoe Van Schyndel |
Don't Bank on These Funds The returns of the three funds outlined below are symptomatic of the abysmal performance in the banking sector overall. Each has lost 40% or more of its value over the past three years. |
The Motley Fool
August 3, 2010
Alex Dumortier |
Is There Any Value in AIG Shares? One exceptional investor thinks so. |
Financial Planning
March 1, 2007
Craig L. Israelsen |
Tales of the Tape When you look at annual returns, stocks, equity mutual funds and indexes tell surprisingly different stories. |
The Motley Fool
February 12, 2010
Amanda B. Kish |
Must-Read Mutual Fund News Stay up-to-date on fund happenings: Bruce Berkowitz of the Fairholme Fund makes a move... Eight new ProShares exchange-traded funds... The incredible shrinking mutual fund industry... |
The Motley Fool
October 23, 2008
Dan Caplinger |
Are Your Investments All Wrong? In most bear markets, you can find somewhere to hide. But this time around, there's really no harbor from the financial storm. |
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. |
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%. |
Financial Planning
May 1, 2011
Craig L. Israelsen |
Getting Back In For the most conservative clients, the most prudent way to reenter the equity markets is by degree. For investors with well-diversified portfolios and lengthy holding periods, a lump-sum approach will likely produce better outcomes. |
The Motley Fool
April 4, 2011
Amanda B. Kish |
Should You Buy These Fast Growers? These three fund shops are doing something right, but are they right for you? |
On Wall Street
March 1, 2012
Tom Roseen |
Recent Losses Continue to Haunt Equity Investors Over the last 87 years the number of years of equity outperformance (63) handily beat the number of years of underperformance (24). Armed with this knowledge, we shouldn't let the fear of loss alone drive our investment decisions. |
Financial Planning
January 1, 2009
Israelsen & Considine |
Seeing Risk Ahead Having the ability to estimate risk potential when pursuing an investment opportunity is an extremely valuable decision-making tool. |
The Motley Fool
April 27, 2004
Shannon Zimmerman |
Check Volatility at the Door Sector funds can be a lot more risky than they at first appear. Even true champion funds aren't risk-free, but a history of keeping volatility in check adds to their appeal. |
The Motley Fool
June 21, 2005
Shannon Zimmerman |
Funds and Fatherhood Mutual funds and Father's Day -- a perfect combination. |
The Motley Fool
February 7, 2011
Amanda B. Kish |
2 Out-of-Favor Investments to Buy Now Just because an investment is down and out doesn't mean it isn't a good long-term value. |
Financial Planning
January 1, 2011
Craig L. Israelsen |
Measuring Stick It's worth the effort to calculate the performance of a mutual fund under different investing assumptions. |
Financial Planning
October 1, 2010
Craig L. Israelsen |
Lost-and Found A well-diversified portfolio would have protected investors during the "Lost Decade" between 2000 and 2009. |
The Motley Fool
August 8, 2011
Dan Caplinger |
Forced Selling Could Smack These Stocks If funds have to dump shares, these might be at the top of the list. |
The Motley Fool
June 7, 2010
Amanda B. Kish |
What May's Market Rout Means for Your Portfolio Despite signs of nascent economic recovery, the stock market pretty much fell apart in May, taking a roughly 8% header for the month. |
The Motley Fool
August 5, 2010
Amanda B. Kish |
Low-Barrier Investments You Can Buy Today Mutual funds for those with minimal cash. |
The Motley Fool
December 10, 2007
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How to Build Wealth in Today's Market The market's volatile, but that volatility is bringing huge opportunities. |
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
September 9, 2011
Amanda B. Kish |
How to Make Money With Mutual Funds A lowdown on mutual funds. |
The Motley Fool
February 11, 2009
Dan Caplinger |
The Mistake That Could Derail Your Portfolio for Years Just because a mutual fund did well before doesn't mean it will continue to do so. |
The Motley Fool
September 25, 2008
Shannon Zimmerman |
Better Living Through Cheating You can beat the market without breaking a sweat. No, really. |
Financial Planning
January 1, 2011
Donald Jay Korn |
True Value How did value funds post superior numbers for the trailing 10 years? The short answer is that they held few technology stocks and emerged from the burstng tech bubble with a lead they held through the decade, says Michael Breen, associate director of mutual fund analysis for Morningstar. |
Financial Planning
April 1, 2005
Craig L. Israelsen |
The Virtues of Consistency One important measure of mutual fund performance is an absence of volatility. Can "slow and steady" really win the race? |
The Motley Fool
June 10, 2011
Amanda B. Kish |
Low-Risk Investments for Volatile Markets These mutual funds can help your portfolio through tough times. |
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. |
Registered Rep.
March 1, 2007 |
International Flight Over the last three years, foreign mutual funds have posted annual returns twice those notched by the S&P 500, prompting investors to dump shares of U.S. stock funds and park that cash overseas in search of fatter returns. |
The Motley Fool
August 2, 2004
Mathew Emmert |
Dividend Funds Missing Dividends When you boil down the names, the strategies, and the yields, you really just end up with some fairly average growth funds. |
The Motley Fool
July 27, 2010
Amanda B. Kish |
3 Off-the-Radar Small-Cap Gems These quality funds can give your portfolio the exposure it needs. |
