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The Motley Fool April 9, 2007 Amanda B. Kish |
Are "Excellent" Funds Foolish? Part 4 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. Intermediate-term bond champs... Second-best bond funds... |
BusinessWeek April 2, 2007 Young & Pressman |
The Best-Managed Mutual Funds Meet the champs of the 2007 Standard & Poor's/BusinessWeek Excellence in Fund Management Awards. |
BusinessWeek November 10, 2003 Jeffrey M. Laderman |
Mutual Funds: What To Do Now Wondering how to cope with the growing scandal? Here are some answers. |
Registered Rep. January 3, 2008 John Churchill |
Morningstar's "Best Of 2007": A Dubious Distinction? Morningstar announces the three winners chosen as "Mutual Fund Managers of the Year." But with many studies showing one year's hot managers often don't perform as well the following year, is it a distinction anyone really wants? |
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. |
The Motley Fool August 3, 2010 Amanda B. Kish |
Can Bill Gross Keep His Magic Touch? Investors piling into his flagship bond fund are missing cheaper opportunities. |
Financial Advisor December 2005 Alan Lavine |
Playing Two Sides PIMCO's three-year-old StocksPlus Total Return Fund buys S&P 500 futures, then tries to beat the index with bonds. |
BusinessWeek January 23, 2006 Lauren Young |
Funds: The Easy Way To Find The Best This Mutual Fund Scoreboard turns up funds you might never have heard of otherwise. |
BusinessWeek January 26, 2004 Lauren Young |
The Cream Of The Crop In Mutual Funds After the tough times and the scandals, this year's Scoreboard will come in especially handy. |
The Motley Fool April 9, 2007 Amanda B. Kish |
Are "Excellent" Funds Foolish? Part 5 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. Focus on bond funds... Mortgage-backed bonds... Not necessarily necessary... etc. |
Entrepreneur September 2004 Dian Vujovich |
Way to Grow Large-cap growth funds may not sound exciting, but there's a solid place for them in a diversified portfolio. This fund uses a computer model to pick its winners. |
Registered Rep. August 27, 2012 Stan Luxenberg |
Bill Gross' New Trick PIMCO's Total Return ETF has proven the skeptics wrong and outperformed the flagship fund that shares its strategy. |
BusinessWeek April 28, 2011 Sree Vidya Bhaktavatsalam |
This Crash Protection Doesn't Pay Despite turmoil, bear market funds are the worst performers. |
The Motley Fool October 13, 2009 Dan Caplinger |
Beat the Odds With These 3 Low-Risk Investments Most actively managed funds do badly, but there are some winners. |
BusinessWeek February 2, 2004 Young & Gutner |
Why You Belong In Bonds Even when rates rise, bond funds provide a market cushion. We've done the math to find the best ones for right now. |
The Motley Fool June 2, 2005 Selena Maranjian |
Americans Favor Mutual Funds Stock funds are hot, as they should be. |
BusinessWeek March 22, 2004 |
No Stars, Stellar Work Strong performance drew so much cash to the Dodge & Cox Stock Fund (DODGX ), one of our 2003 award winners, that it closed to new investors in January. Would-be investors aren't completely shut out: They can still buy shares in the $13.2 billion Dodge & Cox Balanced Fund |
BusinessWeek January 22, 2007 Lauren Young |
Meet The Funds That Perform Taking the guesswork out of picking mutual funds. |
The Motley Fool August 18, 2004 Matt Logan |
Beat the S&P 500 Legg Mason's Mary Chris Gay talks about why the S&P crushes most fund managers and how to beat it. |
The Motley Fool October 6, 2010 Amanda B. Kish |
More Top Investments for Your Retirement Cover your retirement bases with some familiar fund names: Vanguard 500 Index... State Street Global S&P 500 Index... American Funds EuroPacific Growth... PIMCO Total Return... American Funds Growth Fund of America... |
Financial Planning September 1, 2011 Donald Jay Korn |
Double Plays When clients want a total return fund, it may be difficult for advisors to sort out the options. Determining what role a total return fund can play in a client's portfolio requires a deeper understanding of this confusing category. |
The Motley Fool April 27, 2006 Chuck Saletta |
Dueling Fools: Mutual Funds Bear Rebuttal Beating a benchmark only has meaning if you're looking at the right one. Over a lifetime, managing to barely beat Vanguard's Short-Term Bond Index should be an embarrassment for a stock investor. |
The Motley Fool April 23, 2009 Dan Caplinger |
Investments That Don't Stand a Chance An active fund that only seeks to match its benchmark is a waste of your money. If that's all a fund can offer, you're much better off going with the index fund. |
Financial Planning December 1, 2006 Elizabeth O'Brien |
Safe Harbor Bill Gross' Harbor Bond remains a good pick despite a (relatively) down year. |
The Motley Fool July 6, 2004 |
Seeking Outstanding Mutual Funds Don't settle for below-average performance when you can earn average or better. |
The Motley Fool April 9, 2007 Amanda B. Kish |
Are "Excellent" Funds Foolish? Part 3 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. Overseas winners... High-yield winners... |
The Motley Fool November 23, 2004 Shannon Zimmerman |
The Case for Mutual Funds Investors willing to do their homework can whip up on the Wise with one hand tied behind their checkbooks. Picking the right fund is every bit as important as picking the right stock, if not more so. |
BusinessWeek January 23, 2006 Lauren Young |
How Do Your Picks Compare? How to customize the Mutual Fund Scoreboard to sort by what's most important to you. |
BusinessWeek April 19, 2004 Tergesen & Young |
Index Funds Aren't All Equal High costs and managers who hold cash too long -- or pay inflated commissions -- can shave returns. So it pays to compare |
Information Today August 4, 2015 |
The Open Data Institute's Open Data Award Finalists Winners were chosen in five categories. |
Registered Rep. March 31, 2015 John F. Wasik |
The Case For Fixed Income Active Management Does it still make sense to have a high-profile, actively managed bond fund in your clients' 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? |
The Motley Fool July 28, 2004 Bill Mann |
Index Funds: Still Your Best Bet So we're running to actively managed funds now? Not so fast, my friend. When Nathan Slaughter pointed his guns at the trusty, old index fund, many had to stop and ask whether The Motley Fool was abandoning one of its oldest principles. |
Registered Rep. April 1, 2008 Stan Luxenberg |
Beating The Bear Will active funds eventually wither away? Not likely. Actively run funds are alive and well, and many are beating the current bear market. |
The Motley Fool October 4, 2005 |
Fun With Funds A guide to common types of mutual funds. |
The Motley Fool December 27, 2010 Amanda B. Kish |
Why Even Bond Managers Hate Bonds It may be time to switch back to stocks. |
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. |
The Motley Fool June 23, 2004 |
Kinds of Funds Learn the difference between income funds and balanced funds. |
The Motley Fool October 28, 2010 Amanda B. Kish |
Award-Winning Investments Our analyst picks the winners. |
Financial Advisor April 2010 Marla Brill |
A Good Complement More advisors think both bond mutual funds and ETFs belong in client portfolios. |
The Motley Fool July 30, 2007 Amanda B. Kish |
Hard Times for Junk Bonds High-yield bonds' time in the sun may be over. Although junk bonds may produce tempting returns, they should only be introduced strategically, and they should almost never account for a large portion of your investment. |
The Motley Fool September 13, 2011 Dan Caplinger |
Don't Follow Bill Gross Off the Cliff PIMCO bond maven Bill Gross throws in the towel. Should you? |
The Motley Fool December 7, 2004 David Gardner |
Finding the Best Funds Here's how you can climb to the top of the mutual fund heap. |
The Motley Fool November 25, 2009 Dan Caplinger |
These 3 Tips Will Make You a Winning Investor Don't waste money on unnecessary investing costs. |
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. |
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? |
BusinessWeek August 26, 2010 Charles Stein |
A Boom in Bonds Hurts Mutual Funds Investors' preference for bond funds has put pressure on earnings at companies that specialize in stock funds. |
The Motley Fool January 14, 2009 Dan Caplinger |
Is One-Stop Investing Safe? Having all your money in one place can be detrimental in a couple of ways. |
The Motley Fool May 11, 2005 Shannon Zimmerman |
The Case for Mutual Funds Picking the right fund is every bit as important as picking the right stock, if not more so. |
Financial Planning October 1, 2013 Craig L. Israelsen |
Should Clients Avoid Bonds Now? With rates inching upward, some clients may want to skip fixed-income investments entirely. They shouldn't. |