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The Motley Fool April 7, 2009 Selena Maranjian |
A Surprising Trait of Outperforming Funds When you study a fund, you might want to pay attention to the aspects of the fund that the researchers found matter the most: the quality of the board of directors, and its fees. |
The Motley Fool February 20, 2008 Selena Maranjian |
Good Funds Reopening Here comes a chance to invest in some solid funds that are reopening to investors. |
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 3, 2011 Selena Maranjian |
Make Money in Consumer Staples the Easy Way There's no need to guess which consumer staples company will perform best if you invest in exchange-traded funds. |
The Motley Fool October 20, 2009 Selena Maranjian |
Save Yourself $2,250 Beware of loaded mutual funds. |
The Motley Fool June 20, 2008 Selena Maranjian |
Make Money Despite Higher Fees A low fee isn't everything. |
The Motley Fool July 11, 2007 Amanda B. Kish |
Tips for Tracking Turnover In mutual funds, how much turnover is too much? |
The Motley Fool June 4, 2009 Dan Caplinger |
These Buyers Will Launch Stocks Higher For fund managers who've kept money on the sidelines this year, the pressure's on to get fully invested -- and when those holdouts start buying, they'll likely push stocks even higher. |
The Motley Fool February 28, 2005 |
Understanding "Window Dressing" Some mutual funds are pulling the wool over your eyes. |
The Motley Fool March 29, 2010 Jordan DiPietro |
Don't Say You Weren't Warned Avoid actively managed mutual funds and invest in individual stocks instead. |
The Motley Fool February 19, 2009 Dan Caplinger |
The Only Way to Stop Losing Money By taking charge of investing your own large portfolio, you can save a bundle in fees. |
Entrepreneur April 2007 Scott Bernard Nelson |
Shed Light Are hedge funds leaving you in the dark? Morningstar's extensive database might be a good place to start your research. |
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. |
The Motley Fool November 29, 2007 Adam J. Wiederman |
The Worst Investment Out There Take a look at Shepherd Large Cap Growth Fund, which year to date has impressively outperformed the market, but may have set itself up disastrously for the long term. |
The Motley Fool August 21, 2007 Nathan Alderman |
4 Keys to Easier Investing Mystified by mutual funds? Here's what to look for. Once you know these four key elements to seek out when judging a fund, you'll be ready to start your own search to build your perfect fund portfolio. |
The Motley Fool July 7, 2006 Selena Maranjian |
Make Millions From Thousands Turbo-charge your portfolio with a few strong performers. |
Investment Advisor April 2007 Robert F. Keane |
Morningstar--S&P Deal Morningstar and Standard and Poor's, a division of The McGraw-Hill Companies, announced the completion of a deal for Morningstar to acquire Standard and Poor's mutual fund data business for $55 million in cash. |
The Motley Fool September 28, 2007 Amanda B. Kish |
The Key to Successful Mutual Fund Investing Mutual fund expenses may be one of the best ways to tell whether a fund will outperform or not. |
The Motley Fool October 25, 2007 Selena Maranjian |
30% Annual Returns? Wow! Don't be misled by big numbers from mutual funds. Here, take a closer look at Hodges. The five-year average annual return was 30%, but the year-by-year tells a different story. |
The Motley Fool January 4, 2010 Selena Maranjian |
Say Goodbye to Class-B Mutual Funds Class B never served you well. Now they don't serve Wall Street, either. |
The Motley Fool October 15, 2007 Dan Caplinger |
Put $174,000 Back in Your Pocket You're paying too much for mutual funds. When it comes to investing, every dollar counts. Yet too many investors are throwing money away unnecessarily. |
Registered Rep. December 1, 2005 Stan Luxenberg |
Some Mutual Funds Win in Tax Game It's true, on average, that exchange-traded funds and separate accounts have tax advantages over mutual funds. But advisors shouldn't dismiss mutual funds too quickly. |
The Motley Fool December 4, 2007 Selena Maranjian |
How to Own the Fastest-Growing Stocks One good way to own the fastest-growing stocks is through mutual funds. By investing in funds, you let skilled professionals choose the most promising stocks they can find for you. |
The Motley Fool June 25, 2008 Selena Maranjian |
Pay Attention to Turnover If you're thinking of buying some of a mutual fund's top holdings as individual stocks for your portfolio, be careful. |
Financial Planning October 1, 2005 Craig L. Israelsen |
Making the Grade Does Morningstar's new stewardship ranking of a fund's ethics correlate with good performance? |
The Motley Fool June 9, 2009 Selena Maranjian |
When Cash Is Bad for Funds While we're sitting smack in the middle of a great big opportunity, some mutual funds are still sitting on a lot of cash -- rather than deploying it. |
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. |
Registered Rep. May 1, 2006 John Churchill |
Alpha Dogs Actively managed mutual funds have generally underperformed their corresponding benchmark indices over time, according to a recent study. |
The Motley Fool May 17, 2011 Dan Caplinger |
7 Stocks Top Fund Gurus Are Buying Top funds disclose their moves for the past three months. |
The Motley Fool March 5, 2008 Mac Greer |
Fool Video: One Money Stock, Amazon's Future, and Netflix's Ratings Analyst Andy Cross rates ratings star Morningstar. |
The Motley Fool November 16, 2009 Selena Maranjian |
Exciting Young Funds Buck the Trend Death and rebirth in the land of mutual funds. |
The Motley Fool December 22, 2009 Selena Maranjian |
Who Owns Most of the Market? Remember that even though mutual funds hold huge chunks of companies, the real owners of the shares are us. If we don't assert our rights, no one's going to do it for us. |
The Motley Fool October 20, 2009 Dan Caplinger |
This Easy Move Will Save You $215,900 It's all in what you pay. Doing what you can to minimize your costs, however, will always put money back in your pocket. |
The Motley Fool June 27, 2007 Amanda B. Kish |
The 5-Minute Fund Test Follow these easy steps to find worthy mutual funds. |
The Motley Fool January 15, 2010 Selena Maranjian |
Warning: Your Mutual Fund Might Disappear Which could actually be a good thing. |
Registered Rep. March 29, 2011 Diana Britton |
Morningstar: Pick Funds that Regard Investors as Partners Fund companies that regard their investors more like partners than "other people's money" are more likely to deliver good risk-adjusted returns and have higher survivorship rates. |
The Motley Fool June 26, 2009 Dan Caplinger |
The Danger Lurking in Your Portfolio Think you're diversified? Think again. |
The Motley Fool November 11, 2009 Dan Caplinger |
This Awful Investment Should Just Die One market commentator has suggested that the Investor Protection Act could force brokers to stop selling a particular class of mutual funds, those known as "C" shares. |
The Motley Fool March 2, 2009 John Rosevear |
Put This Overlooked Gem in Your IRA Now This below-the-radar fund is worth a closer look. The Aston/River Road Dividend All Cap Value Fund may not have the fund industry's most elegant name, but this Morningstar five-star fund has a lot of positives. |
Registered Rep. November 29, 2010 Stan Luxenberg |
"Active Share," The Metric That Shows When Active Management Is Worth It Investors have been abandoning actively managed mutual funds and shifting to passive vehicles. |
The Motley Fool November 27, 2007 Adam J. Wiederman |
How to Invest When You're Busy If you're pressed for time, mutual funds may be the perfect investment opportunity for you. |
Registered Rep. March 30, 2006 John Churchill |
Mutual Fund Performance Overstated, Says Study Actively managed mutual funds have done worse than is generally thought. Those, at least, are the findings of a study released yesterday covering a ten-year period of performance figures reported by Morningstar. |
The Motley Fool April 9, 2008 Selena Maranjian |
Why I Was Wrong, and Then Wrong Again Don't get all excited about a mutual fund based on its performance in a single year. |
The Motley Fool March 16, 2009 Dan Caplinger |
This Wealth-Killing Blunder Will Cost You Some commentators are arguing that the way millions of investors put money to work in the markets through mutual funds has fundamental flaws that simply can't be overcome. |
The Motley Fool January 4, 2005 Shannon Zimmerman |
Are Your Funds Worth Owning? There's nothing magical or intrinsically worthwhile about a mutual fund in itself. A fund is only as good as the folks picking the investments. How does your fund measure up? |
Registered Rep. January 1, 2005 Stan Luxenberg |
Grading Governance The mutual fund scandals have put advisors in a tough position: Recommending a fund that ends up in the headlines can deal a serious blow to an advisor's reputation and can even mean lost clients. |
Financial Planning July 1, 2005 Bob Hirschfeld |
News Regulatory investigations into Chicago-based mutual fund and stock research firm Morningstar don't seem to have affected its newly public stock. |
Information Today May 29, 2007 |
Morningstar.com Library Edition Enhanced Morningstar has added several new features and improved others on Morningstar.com Library Edition, an online database created exclusively for libraries and their users. |
Financial Planning November 1, 2006 Pamela Black |
White Paper: Predicting Emerging Market Fund Performance This study examines the ability of fund characteristics such as size, expense ratio, turnover, past performance, Morningstar rating and manager tenure to predict emerging market fund performance. |
The Motley Fool October 29, 2009 Selena Maranjian |
Winning With Buy-and-Hold Mutual Funds In the aftermath of last year's stock market crash, buy-and-hold investing became a controversial strategy. But one year later, mutual funds pursuing a long-term, low-turnover approach to investing seem to be holding up surprisingly well. |