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Financial Advisor April 2004 Marla Brill	Recent Lessons From Behavioral Finance Don't look for logic in the way investors act, say these experts.
Investment Advisor September 2005 Callahan & Howard	Outside the Box Style boxes place artificial constraints on portfolio managers that may lead to underperformance. Instead, the authors argue, we should set managers free to pursue their unique styles.
Registered Rep. November 1, 2002 Eric Uhlfelder	Reversal of Fortune More than likely, some sub-$5 stocks will dodge the bullet and turn around. But since such recoveries likely will depend on improvement in the broad economy, most clients would probably be better off sticking with companies that have better weathered the bear market.
Registered Rep. March 1, 2005 Stan Luxenberg	Looks Like a Hedge Fund, Smells Like For clients who cannot --- or will not --- try hedge funds, there is a compelling alternative: mutual funds that follow hedge-like strategies. Here are some options.
The Motley Fool November 5, 2004 Selena Maranjian	10 Big Investing Mistakes Some mistakes are not always mistakes.
Financial Planning March 1, 2006 Craig L. Israelsen	Hidden Measures How did U.S. stocks perform versus U.S. equity mutual funds last year? The market-cap bias in measuring stock returns tends to obscure the true return picture.
Financial Planning June 1, 2005 Russell Wild	Style War Some financial advisers argue that there's more than one way to slice a portfolio.
Financial Advisor October 2004 Alan Lavine	Pondering The Fate Of Mid-Cap Stock Funds Is the market rotating away from this once-hot sector?
BusinessWeek October 4, 2004	Why Value Still Beats Growth Value stocks have been on a five-year roll, gaining an annualized 7.4% since 1999, vs. a loss of 3.8% for growth stocks. Can the trend continue?
Investment Advisor May 2006 Susan Hirshman	The Wealth Advisor: Profiting by Behavior Competition for affluent clients is fiercer than ever. To attract their attention, you need to stand out from the crowd. You must have better insights about your clients and the markets and a better process to deliver your services. In other words, you have to be a wealth manager.
Financial Advisor January 2006 Marla Brill	Bold Bets Fund managers who run concentrated portfolios offer a refreshing departure from the increasingly popular practice of far-reaching, benchmark-centric investing.
The Motley Fool December 17, 2004 Selena Maranjian	Debating Investing Mistakes Should you avoid stocks with high P/E ratios? Should you buy stocks in a down market? Is it possible to over diversify your portfolio? Investors disagree about whether some investing actions are mistakes.
The Motley Fool September 7, 2004 Salim Haji	How Many Stocks Should You Own? Diversification into stocks you don't fully understand could increase risk within your portfolio.
Registered Rep. March 1, 2003 Stan Luxenburg	Going to Extremes Used as the "explore" part of a "core and explore" strategy, focus can indeed help produce alpha (outperformance).
The Motley Fool May 4, 2005 David Meier	The Value of Cash What should an individual investor do if the overall stock market isn't expected to return much over the next few years? In a struggling market, valuation -- not cash -- is king.
Knowledge@Wharton	Is Behavioral Finance a Growth Industry? The subdiscipline of behavioral finance has gained ground over the last half-decade. The idea is simple: Investors are not as rational as traditional theory has assumed, and biases in their decision-making can have a cumulative effect on asset prices...
Registered Rep. December 6, 2013 Daniel Crosby	When Alpha Becomes Beta The Nobel committee sent a strong message with its choice of three scholars with widely divergent world views, perhaps signaling to the broader financial services world that people from all camps have a lot to offer as well as much to learn.
The Motley Fool October 6, 2004 James Early	4 Small Caps That Boost Your Odds The stock market has a back door to returns. The most fertile ground happens to be small-cap turf. Here's why many in the know feel this is true, as well as four names to jump-start your research.
The Motley Fool October 18, 2004 Jim Schoettler	Coming Up Short Can short interest help you pick winners? Here is a critical look at the role of short interest as a tool for finding potential values.
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BusinessWeek September 29, 2003 Peter Coy	Should You Time the Market? It all depends on how you think the market works. But it's easy to get your timing wrong, so don't stray far from your target mix.
Knowledge@Wharton	Is That a $100 Bill Lying on the Ground? Two Views of Market Efficiency In early October, Daniel Kahneman and Vernon Smith won the Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences for their research, conducted independently, into how individuals make economic decisions. The two discovered that investors are not systematically rational, as traditional economic theory asserts.
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The Motley Fool August 24, 2004 Steven Mallas	Short Ride to Disaster Selling stocks short is a very, very risky move that shouldn't be attempted by new investors.
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BusinessWeek July 4, 2005 Aaron Pressman	Option Income Funds: Watch Out Option income funds, which hold stocks and sell call options against them, offer payouts that are generous in these low-yield times, but the risks are great.
The Motley Fool July 14, 2004 Selena Maranjian	The Future of Investing Jeremy Siegel has a new book coming out, called The Future of Investing, focusing on how to identify stocks that have a good chance of being long-term winners. Here's a peek at comments he recently made about the state and future of the stock market.
Registered Rep. November 1, 2005 Stan Luxenberg	The Worthy Tired of lackluster performance, investors have been ignoring large-cap domestic funds. Instead, foreign funds are all the rage. But, there are still good reasons for many investors to consider active large-cap managers.
The Motley Fool February 22, 2005 James Early	How to Cheat the Market Your odds of picking stocks that beat the market aren't good. But a portfolio favoring high (cheap) E/Ps and low growth outperforms its glamour opposite by 11% per year.
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The Motley Fool February 4, 2005 Selena Maranjian	Embracing a Foolish Inconsistency As you begin, investing can be simple. Your first steps should be to get out of debt, read broadly on investing, and perhaps invest your initial dollars in an index fund.
The Motley Fool May 25, 2004 Rich Smith	Feeling Contrary? Move to Europe! Unlike the American, the European equity bubble got popped and stayed popped.
The Motley Fool November 3, 2004 Selena Maranjian	Why So Few "Sell" Ratings? There are many reasons why stock analysts rarely say "Sell"!
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Registered Rep. January 1, 2003 David A. Geracioti	Jeremy Siegel Is Still A Believer in Stocks for the Long Term Siegel's most important message? That there must be a new approach to calculating the "right" price-to-earnings multiple for large stocks.
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