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- How You Can Succeed in Finding Corporate Sponsorship
- Finding sponsorship is hard work. Funds are scarce and sponsors expect more and more for their dollar. People are competing against many others who are also trying to find corporate sponsorship. They are competing for the same dollar. And they are competing for same sponsors. It's a fiercely competitive field.
- White papers 2006-10-16
- Media Roundup: Wired Editor's New Gig, Judith Miller as Media Pundit, and More
- Open-source investigations: the new new journalism -- Journalist David Cohn has launched a non-profit project that raises funds from different donors to complete investigative reports on big topics. Journalists can pitch story ideas, as can the general public. Funds are raised on the project's website, Spot.us, and the finished article...
- Blog posts 2008-11-10
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- Here Come the "Safe" Stock Funds
- As sure as rain begets mudslides, the bear market has spawned a menagerie of new "safe" equity investments. But only one is worth a cautious try. ...
- Articles 2009-05-28
- AARP Mutual Funds: Is AARP Looking Out for You?
- The giant nonprofit offers multiple financial products, but are they any good? First under the microscope: AARP's $202 million mutual-fund family. The AARP Funds Switcheroo AARP has sold mutual funds for 25 years, but the group switched course dramatically in...
- Articles 2009-07-09
- Asset Allocation Funds: 6 Picks
- Managers of tactical asset allocation mutual funds can invest in everything from stocks to commodities, moving money out of one asset category and into another whenever they want. They?re supposed to buffer you against collapsing markets while offering growth potential. It all sounds great in theory. But in the real...
- Articles 2009-11-03
- On the Performance of Alternative Investments: CTAs, Hedge Funds, and Funds-of-Funds
- This paper examines alternative investment vehicles such as hedge funds, funds-of-funds, and commodity trading advisors CTAs by investigating their performance, risk, and fund characteristics. Differing from the previous studies that pool these investment vehicles, it considers them as three distinctive investment classes. Article studies them not only on a stand-alone...
- White papers 2003-11-01
- How Many Hedge Funds Are Needed To Create A Diversified Fund Of Funds?
- Hedge Funds generally seek strong absolute returns with low correlation to market indices through one of many hedging strategies. Investors have shown considerable interest in "fund-of- funds" products as an additional way to reduce volatility by diversifying across a group of hedge funds. However, many investors tend to examine the...
- White papers 2001-03-01
- On the Performance of Alternative Investments : CTAs, Hedge Funds, and Funds-of-Funds
- This paper discusses the alternative investment vehicles such as hedge funds, funds-of-funds, and commodity trading advisors CTAs by investigating their performance, risk, and fund characteristics. It focuses on them not only on a stand-alone basis but also on a portfolio basis. Several interesting results were found. First, CTAs differ from...
- White papers 2003-04-01
- Captured Money? Differences in the Performance Characteristics of Retail and Institutional Mutual Funds
- Since the early 1990s, a number of mutual funds have emerged that cater exclusively to institutional investors, i.e. pension funds, trusts and corporate benefit plans. Information on the performance and flows into institutional mutual funds provides a unique opportunity to compare the factors influencing investment decisions of institutional investors to...
- White papers 2002-12-24
- Hedge Funds, Funds-of-Funds, and Commodity Trading Advisors
- This paper studies the performance, risk, and fund characteristics for alternative investment vehicles such as hedge funds, funds-of-funds, and commodity trading advisors CTAs. We have several interesting findings. First, funds-of-funds under perform hedge funds over the period from 1994 to 2001, probably due to the double fee structure of funds-of-funds....
- White papers 2002-09-01
- Best Funds for a Fast-Changing Market
- No strategy works for long in this crazy market. So you want your money in a fund nimble enough to go anywhere and invest in anything at any time — like one of these. ...
- Articles 2009-06-22
- Long/Short Mutual Funds -- More Style than Substance
- As a general rule, if someone recommends an investment product or strategy to you largely on the basis of its sophistication, your best move is to run in the opposite direction. That would seem to be an appropriate reaction to anyone attempting to convince you of the merits of a...
- Blog posts 2009-10-26
- Canadian mutual funds index - Resource Directory 1997
- Below is a listing of Canadian mutual funds by different categories such as Canadian equity funds, U.S. equity funds, International equity funds, balanced funds, dividend funds, bond and mortgage funds, real estate funds, specialty funds, and money market funds. In addition, the index shows whether a fund is eligible for...
- Research articles 1997-07-01
- 10. Canadian mutual funds index
- Below is a listing of Canadian mutual funds by different categories such as Canadian equity funds, U.S. equity funds, International equity funds, balanced funds, dividend funds, bond and mortgage funds, real estate funds, specialty funds, and money market funds. In addition, the index shows whether a fund is eligible for...
- Research articles 1999-07-01
- Canadian mutual funds index
- Below is a listing of Canadian mutual funds by different categories such as Canadian equity funds, U.S. equity funds, International equity funds, balanced funds, dividend funds, bond and mortgage funds, real estate funds, specialty funds, and money market funds. In addition, the index shows whether a fund is eligible for...
- Research articles 1998-07-01
- Canadian mutual funds index
- Below is a listing of Canadian mutual funds by different categories such as Canadian equity funds, U.S. equity funds, International equity funds, balanced funds, dividend funds, bond and mortgage funds, real estate funds, specialty funds, and money market funds. In addition, the index shows whether a fund is eligible for...
- Research articles 1996-07-01
- Inside Stable Value Funds
- At least until recently, just about every investment in your 401k has let you down amid the wholesale market meltdown — except one. Stable value funds have lived up to their name so far. But just so you know, they aren't risk-free. So, trust but verify... Until stocks turned around...
- Articles 2009-03-16
- Cerberus to bar withdrawals from two funds
- Cerberus, the investment group, is barring investors in two new hedge funds from withdrawing money for three years in an effort to avoid a repeat of the large outflows that followed its lossmaking purchases of Chrysler and GMAC, the group's executives said. The move to introduce a three-year "lock-up" is...
- News items 2009-09-02
- Fees on Fees in Funds of Funds
- Funds of funds are an increasingly popular avenue for hedge fund investment. Despite the increasing interest in hedge funds as an alternative asset class, the high degree of fund specific risk and the lack of transparency may give fiduciaries pause. In addition, many of the most attractive hedge funds are...
- White papers 2002-10-01
- Anchor Your Portfolio With Index Funds
- One of the most basic distinctions between mutual funds is whether the fund manager employs an active or a passive management approach. An active management style means the fund manager uses analytic or forecasting tools to select individual stocks for the fund portfolio. In a passive approach, the fund manager...
- White papers 2003-01-01
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