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5 Financial Stocks You Should Be Looking At There are companies in the financial industry that are worthy of your investment dollars. Take a look at: SEI Investments... optionsXpress... NYSE Euronext... Lazard... Markel... |
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Markel Muscles Its Way Forward This insurer's performed admirably, considering the circumstances. |
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Don't Be Fooled by Low Share Prices Never put too much stock in a company's share price without getting more context. Focus on the stock's value -- how undervalued you think it might be and how well it might serve you. |
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What's the Alternative? Bank of America Alternative Investment Solutions studies high-net- worth investors' attitudes toward alternative investments. |
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Hedge Funds: Are They Worth It? Strategists in the wirehouses and elsewhere say hedge funds were wrongly maligned, and that the good funds can still serve the purpose of diversifying a portfolio and reducing risk. |
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Who's Buying Now? Sometimes insiders are buying for all the right reasons. Who's at it this week? |
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Can You Get it Spectacularly Wrong and Still Beat the Market? This investor has always been one of my favorites, but he got it spectacularly wrong. |
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Where Are the Superinvestors? A high percentage of the best money managers is unavailable to the general public. The truly exceptional money managers are in hedge funds. My hypothesis is that, on average, the lowest-caliber investors are individuals and mutual fund managers. |
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