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The Motley Fool January 3, 2006 Rich Duprey |
15 and Counting at Legg Mason Legendary fund manager Bill Miller beats the market for the 15th straight year, and you can, too by following several basic principles. |
The Motley Fool April 25, 2007 Selena Maranjian |
Are Holding Periods Pointing Toward a Crash? Many individuals and funds are selling too soon, and too often. While you're searching your investing soul for your holding-period habits, do so with your mutual funds, too. |
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. |
The Motley Fool April 28, 2009 Dan Caplinger |
The Best Method for Simple Investing Depending on how you invest, making the right choice between ETFs and index mutual funds will give you exactly the portfolio you want. |
The Motley Fool September 6, 2006 Selena Maranjian |
Bill Miller's Timing Buying into a fund solely because of its calendar-year records isn't the best idea. Instead, look at the long-term overall record. |
The Motley Fool May 22, 2009 Selena Maranjian |
New Fund Name, Same Lousy Performance? Beware mutual funds that change their monikers, but not their methods. |
The Motley Fool April 5, 2005 |
Behold the Turnover Ratio Turnover ratios can tell you a lot about your mutual funds. |
The Motley Fool June 16, 2009 Selena Maranjian |
These ETFs Help You Do The Right Thing Those who prefer ETFs to funds, and who gravitate toward SRI, can combine those two aims with socially responsible ETFs. Here are two possibilities. |
Financial Advisor December 2004 Christopher P. Parr |
Look Mom! I Beat the S&P Again! Legg's Value Trust---relative fund superstar or absolute media hype? |
The Motley Fool December 15, 2003 Selena Maranjian |
One Red-Hot Fund While most managed stock mutual funds fail to do as well as a simple index fund, Bill Miller's Legg Mason Value Trust fund has a winning streak going that's on the verge of its 13th year. What stocks does Miller like now? |
The Motley Fool November 30, 2007 Rich Duprey |
Bill Miller's New Streak After an amazing 15-year run of beating the S&P 500 index, legendary value investor Bill Miller and his Legg Mason Value Trust are shaping up to fall short of the benchmark for the second year in a row. Has the guru lost his mojo? |
The Motley Fool June 21, 2006 Selena Maranjian |
Is Turnover the Key to Wealth? Here's a tip that can help you zero in on the best mutual funds. |
The Motley Fool March 8, 2010 Dan Caplinger |
Doing This Will Make You a Winner There's no reason to trade when you don't need to. |
The Motley Fool July 21, 2008 Adam J. Wiederman |
Was Bill Miller Just Lucky? Legg Mason Value Trust's winning streak of outperforming the S&P 500 Index is gone and largely undone -- it's now losing to the market over a trailing 10-year period. |
The Motley Fool January 19, 2007 Mary Dalrymple |
Index Funds Win Again Index funds are cheap, easy, and they reliably outperform many other funds. |
The Motley Fool July 29, 2008 Rick Aristotle Munarriz |
Has Bill Miller Lost His Touch? Money managers are human. They make mistakes. However, Legg Mason Value Trust's Bill Miller's oversized bet on wobbly-kneed financials, moribund health-care providers, and overpriced tech stocks is crushing his legacy. |
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. |
The Motley Fool June 30, 2008 Selena Maranjian |
The Cost of Active Investing One sensible approach is to engage in both active and passive investing, devoting a big chunk of your portfolio (perhaps most of it) to a broad-market index fund, and then adding some strong stocks and funds to that. |
The Motley Fool May 31, 2011 Dan Caplinger |
How to Make the Most From Your Funds Investors make big mistakes with their mutual funds. Here's how to avoid them. |
The Motley Fool July 1, 2010 Andrew Bond |
You Can Beat Stock Market "Legends" The idea of the mythical investor is a bit of a fallacy. |
The Motley Fool January 20, 2010 Alex Dumortier |
Are Stock Mutual Funds Dead? There's a new honcho in town. |
The Motley Fool December 16, 2008 Dan Caplinger |
Make the Right Investment Every Time Even after close examination, it can be hard to tell many investments apart. Therefore, how can you ensure that you make the best choice every time? |
The Motley Fool November 3, 2009 Selena Maranjian |
How Much Is Management Costing You? Be picky. Look at fees. Look at a fund's turnover, because the higher the turnover, the higher the taxes on gains will likely be. Look at the long-term returns, too, because given the thousands of mutual funds out there, many are run by not-very-good managers. |
The Motley Fool February 27, 2004 Dayana Yochim |
Sell Your Funds or Stay Put? Fund companies have some soothing words. Before you relax, review your holdings. |
The Motley Fool June 14, 2011 Matt Koppenheffer |
Stocks for a Second-Half Comeback Could these top fund managers score a second-half comeback? |
The Motley Fool January 5, 2010 Rich Duprey |
Bill Miller's Right, Even When He's Wrong The investing legend returns to his market-beating ways. |
Registered Rep. June 24, 2011 Stan Luxenberg |
Tax Mitigation Strategies Using ETFs and Mutual Funds Now that the bull market is in its third year, many funds are again stockpiling capital gains. Those can generate unexpected tax bills -- and cause investors -- your clients -- to hit the roof. |
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 October 16, 2009 Dan Caplinger |
These Investments Just Aren't Worth It Perhaps the most puzzling new product is one that tries to combine the ease of ETFs with the benefits of active management. Active ETFs just don't give you what you're paying for. |
The Motley Fool April 2, 2008 Selena Maranjian |
Money So Easy It Feels Like Cheating You don't have to get rich on your own -- let others do it for you by investing in solid, well-run mutual funds. |
The Motley Fool July 24, 2009 Dan Caplinger |
How These Great Investors Bounced Back Strong Top value mutual fund managers didn't stay down for long. |
The Motley Fool August 31, 2007 Selena Maranjian |
A Free Enterprise Fund For certain conservatives, the Free Enterprise Action fund might be appealing. |
The Motley Fool July 24, 2009 Matt Koppenheffer |
This Investing Guru Says the Rally Is for Real After watching Bill Miller of Legg Mason's Value Trust mutual fund get trounced by the market over the past couple of years, should we trust his bullishness? |
Financial Planning June 1, 2010 Craig L. Israelsen |
What's in a Name? Analyzing the turnover rates of mutual funds shows that strategic portfolios have outperformed tactical ones over the past 10 years. |
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. |
The Motley Fool February 11, 2009 Dan Caplinger |
The Mistake That Could Derail Your Portfolio for Years Just because a mutual fund did well before doesn't mean it will continue to do so. |
The Motley Fool June 3, 2005 Roy Lewis |
Tax Rules for Selling Mutual Funds What do you do when it's time to sell? |
The Motley Fool March 31, 2010 Jennifer Schonberger |
3 Tax Tips for Investing Veteran financial planner Norm Mindel, author of the new book, "Wealth Management in the New Economy," on investing for tax purposes. |
The Motley Fool April 27, 2006 Chuck Saletta |
Dueling Fools: Mutual Funds Bear Problems ingrained in the basic structure of mutual funds typically make them bad investments. |
Financial Advisor June 2006 Matt Hougan |
Death And Taxes? Capital gains distributions. Dividend taxes. 1099s. The very words send a shiver down the spine of prudent investors. What's an advisor to do? Well for starters, you should take a close look at exchange-traded funds (ETFs). |
The Motley Fool March 19, 2008 Dan Caplinger |
Wall Street Should Thank You One finance professor has figured out how much investors pay in commissions, fees, and other investing costs -- and the number will shock you. |
The Motley Fool October 21, 2009 Dan Caplinger |
This Great News Has Been a Long Time Coming Ordinarily, the end of the year is a dangerous time for mutual fund investors. This year, though, most fund shareholders will enjoy something they haven't seen in a while: freedom from capital gains taxes. |
The Motley Fool January 10, 2007 Dan Caplinger |
You Can Start Small You don't need a big bankroll to start investing. A wide range of options are available for investors of modest means, so that you can take what you've already saved and get started. |
The Motley Fool October 15, 2008 Selena Maranjian |
A New Way to Battle the Economy Should you defend your portfolio with the new Sabrient Defensive Equity Index ETF? |
The Motley Fool December 15, 2005 Selena Maranjian |
When ETFs Are Better Than Funds The bottom line is that sometimes, an index fund will serve you just fine. And other times, ETFs may be best. It also depends on the index fund you're looking at, and the ETF. |
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 September 18, 2007 Selena Maranjian |
Funds Are Getting Loaded There's an alarming new trend among mutual fund companies: They're phasing out many or all of their no-load mutual funds. Are these mutual fund worries reasonable or overblown? A little of both. |
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. |
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. |
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. |