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- Three Specialized Stock Funds That Can Spice Up Your
- Certain niches of the economy provide more long-term stability or stronger growth prospects than others. Happily, you can invest in those niches via mutual funds known as sector funds. The benefit of such funds, financial advisers say, is that they provide extra concentration in areas you might want to emphasize...
- White papers 1998-05-01
- Wind Shift or Sea Change?
- A close analysis of stock and fund returns shows patterns hidden by the broader market indexes. The article reminds that mutual funds are not the most exciting approach to investing. But perhaps excitement is overrated. In terms of performance, funds will never compete with the most successful single issues of...
- White papers 2003-04-01
- Get Ready for the Next Round
- It's been a tough three years for mutual fund investors, but you can't afford to quit the fight now. Here's how to get off the ropes and win. On the following article, it is discussed long-term case for sticking with stock funds in a bear market and show you the...
- White papers 2003-02-01
- Picks For Your Portfolio
- Investing with confidence means finding stocks and funds that follow clear, commonsense strategies. We insisted on solid balance sheets and leaned toward stocks paying above-average dividends. Finally, we considered valuation; getting in at a good price is a confidence booster because it limits your downside. When it comes to mutual...
- White papers 2002-03-01
- A Brief History
- A veteran mutual fund manager looks back at the industry -- and calls for changes ahead. The article reminds that as mutual funds gained popularity, fund management evolved from a business into an industry. Funds were offered in every category of stock and bond style boxes. To investigate further into...
- White papers
Additional Resources
- Tune Out Mutual Fund Horse Race Reporting
- For better or worse (mostly, in my strong opinion, the latter) most mutual fund reporting makes investing seem like a horse race: Here's who won over the past year or so, along with some analysis that attempts to explain those results. That's not surprising, of course. Investing is a bottom-line...
- Blog posts 2009-10-05
- Barclays Global Investors Announces Launch Date and Expense Ratios of First U.S.-Listed Fixed Income Exchange-Traded Funds
- Business Editors Barclays Global Investors BGI announced today that four iShares bond ETFs are scheduled to begin trading on the American Stock Exchange on July 26, 2002, and the funds' expense ratios will be 0.15%, beating the average expense ratio of 0.39% of bond index mutual funds(1). The four...
- Research articles 2002-06-26
- Meltdown: What Happened and Where We Go From Here
- As Congress scrambles to redraft its failed $700 billion bailout plan and government agencies consider drastic measures, such as printing more money, we might take a pause to consider how we got here and what CEOs might do about it. So, The Corner Office has talked with...
- Blog posts 2008-09-30
- DWS Dreman High Return Equity Fund: All That Glitters Isn't Gold
- David Dreman is a rarity in the mutual fund industry -- he's a fund manager who has actually beaten his benchmark over the long term. Since 1988, his DWS Dreman High Return Equity Fund has earned 8.3 percent annually, slightly outpacing the Russell 3000 Value Index's eight percent return. Despite...
- Blog posts 2009-04-27
- Ameriprise Financial Inc. Q3 2007 Earnings Call Transcript
- Question-and-Answer SessionOperator Thank you. We will now begin the question-and-answer session [Operator Instructions]. Our first question comes from Suneet Kamath from Sanford Bernstein. Please go ahead. Suneet Kamath - Sanford Bernstein Thanks. One quick one and then one little bit more strategic. First, Walter, did...
- Earnings calls 2007-10-25
- Playing For Real Money
- BURLINGAME, Calif. -- For the past 14 years, Andrew F. Mathieson has run Fairview Capital Management in Greenbrae, Calif., a $400 million investment fund. It's been a nice investment opportunity for those well-heeled enough to get in Fairview's front door: Mathieson has insisted that anyone who wants to become a...
- News items 2009-10-18
- Wells Fargo Q2 2007 Earnings Call Transcript
- Earnings Call ExcerptWells Fargo & Co. WFC Q2 2007 Earnings Call July 17, 2007 8:00 am ET Executives Bob Strickland - SVP & IR Howard Atkins - Sr. EVP & CFO Presentation Bob Strickland Hello, this is Bob Strickland. Thank you for calling into the Wells Fargo Second Quarter...
- Earnings calls 2007-07-17
- How Failing Infrastructure Hurts Your Company
- One issue that is sure to come up during the Democratic and Republican conventions over the next two weeks involves fixing the nation's sagging network of roads, bridges, ports, airports and other parts of the vital infrastructure. Money, if course, is key, but it is in short...
- Blog posts 2008-08-27
- Banco Santander Central Hispano SA Q3 2007 Earnings Call Transcript
- Question-and-Answer Session Unidentified Company Representative Well, it's not really necessary to do an impairment because the evaluation of the goodwill is not related to the share price. It's related rather to the capacity for generating profit and the value of the assets that is the value of the...
- Earnings calls 2007-10-25
- McCain's Goofy Attack on SEC's Cox
- Holy hypocrisy! John McCain is blaming Christopher Cox for the Wall Street meltdown and wants him fired. The would-be president says that the chairman of the U.S. Securities & Exchange Commission has been asleep at the switch. McCain's political ploy raises many questions about...
- Blog posts 2008-09-19
- The Philadelphia Inquirer personal finance column.
- By Jeff Brown, The Philadelphia Inquirer Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Sep. 2--FIDELITY WHITTLES FEES: Like millions of investors, the mutual fund giant Fidelity Investments has got the index-fund religion. On Tuesday, it announced it had cut fees on five of its...
- Research articles 2004-09-02
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