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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. |
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Index Funds Win Again Index funds are cheap, easy, and they reliably outperform many other funds. |
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American Funds' Greatest Hits Top picks from this fund family giant. Europacific Growth... Income Fund of America... etc. |
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This Will Scare You Silly As scary as the current and potential 10-year returns for the S&P sound, investors who added international stocks to their portfolio in 1998 have still come out ahead. |
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August 15, 2007
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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. |
The Motley Fool
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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. |
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Beating the S&P 500 If your portfolio gained less than 15.8% last year, perhaps it's time to think outside the box. |
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The Smart Way to Use Index Funds Now In the cold light of the bear market, advisors have discovered inherent flaws in the indices and the funds that track them. |
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More Proof of a Losing Investment Strategy Finding outperformance among actively managed funds. |
Investment Advisor
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A New Benchmark for Advisors With many advisors using an asset allocation strategy, the S&P 500 is no longer a great benchmark against which to set your pace. Take a look at these new benchmarks. |
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Todd Wenning |
This Will Scare You Silly Take a look at some scary annualized returns from index and bond funds, and what you can do to maximize your portfolio's returns. |
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Index Funds Are Hard to Beat An eye-opening new study from Standard & Poor's reveals that the majority of managed funds fail to outperform simple index funds. That's right -- funds run by actual human beings still can't beat a copycat strategy of matching a broad index's holdings. |
The Motley Fool
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Why You're Not Beating the Market All stocks seem to be moving in tandem. Actively managed mutual funds have been one of the primary victims of this flight from equity, with $191 billion pulled from equity funds in 2008 and 2009, according to Investment Company Institute data. |
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Quantitative Methodology ETFs Search for Better Performance A new breed of ETF has emerged, based on indices that are designed not to reflect the investable universe of a particular market niche, but to pick the best stocks within a specific sector or style. |
The Motley Fool
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Seeking Outstanding Mutual Funds Don't settle for below-average performance when you can earn average or better. |
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December 18, 2007
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Improving on Index Funds As the fund universe continues to evolve, new funds have emerged that try to improve on their first-generation counterparts. One fund in particular has its sights set high -- the Rydex S&P Equal Weight ETF. |
The Motley Fool
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3 Winning Investment Themes for 2011 If you're interested in asset allocation, the start of the year is an opportunity to think about the best way to position your portfolio for success around a small number of investing ideas. Here are three ideas to get you started. |
The Motley Fool
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Market-Beating Returns Made Simple This twist on the old index fund does well. Equal-weight funds have done quite well compared to traditional index funds over periods of several years. |
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Three's Not a Crowd How passive fund investors can get the best exposure to the whole U.S. market. |
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Benchmarking the Benchmarks The news hasn't been good lately for actively managed funds and their investors. In 2011, only one-third of large-cap fund managers beat the S&P 500 index. |
The Motley Fool
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Index Funds: So Hot Right Now Indexing is stylish, but can you profit from its idiosyncrasies? |
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Look Mom! I Beat the S&P Again! Legg's Value Trust---relative fund superstar or absolute media hype? |
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The Motley Fool
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The Best Small-Cap ETFs These exchange-traded funds win the best-in-class award. Let's take a closer look at the iShares Russell 2000 Index ETF, the Vanguard Small-Cap ETF, the iShares Morningstar Small Core ETF, the iShares S&P 600 Value ETF, and the Vanguard Small-Cap Growth ETF. |
The Motley Fool
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Don't Try to Beat the Market It's entirely possible to be a hands-off investor and still put the long-term wealth-building power of the stock market to work for you. The secret? Index funds. |
Financial Planning
August 1, 2006
Scott A. Leonard |
The Dogs of the Dogs Should you be buying the worst of the worst for your clients? To get the most out of academic research, and to take full advantage of the added returns offered by value stocks, the easy conclusion is that when it comes to value, more is better. |
The Motley Fool
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Mutual Fund Fakery Is your expensive, managed fund really an index fund in disguise? |
The Motley Fool
January 20, 2006
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Competing With the S&P 500 If you want to increase your chance of beating the S&P 500 year after year, one good way is to broaden your investment choices to include a generous mix of smaller caps and international equities. Mutual funds and ETFs offer an easy means to get that degree of breadth. |
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How to Buy Winners Set yourself up for big gains. |
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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. |
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The Investing Secret You Need to Know A winning mutual fund strategy boils down to asset allocation. |
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Can You Really Make Money in Blue Chips? There are good opportunities among the large caps, but you have to be choosy. |
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Talking Technology Technology stocks were a good holding in 2007. Tech stocks in the S&P 500 index put up an average gain of 15.5% last year, versus only a 3.5% gain for the "500" as a whole. But what will 2008 bring? |
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Swapping Out If designed well, a diversified, multi-asset portfolio can provide growth during pre-retirement accumulation years and stable income flows during post-retirement distribution years. |
The Motley Fool
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Selena Maranjian |
Fees Count in ETFs, Too Keep looking at fees in your funds and seek out low ones. A slightly lower fee can make a world of difference to your bottom line. |
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Beat the S&P 500 -- Guaranteed! Put a too-often-neglected investing tool, reinvesting index fund dividends, to work for you. |
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Temma Ehrenfeld |
Indexing Works Even fans of index funds often believe they do worse than funds with active managers during bear markets. |
Investment Advisor
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Callahan & Howard |
Boxes Are Not Classes Advisors who use style boxes as proxies for asset classes are performing a disservice to clients. Here's why characteristic boxes are not asset classes and allocating among various characteristic boxes is useless at best. |
The Motley Fool
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You're Smarter Than the S&P 500 Maybe you can beat an index fund, but don't get cocky; remember, hindsight doesn't count. |
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