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With Funds, How Important Is Family, Really? You don't see many rankings of the big mutual fund families. The results, however, can be eye-opening.
SmartMoney.comWhen it comes to mutual fund performance, investors often think of stars like value manager Bill Nygren or bond gurus like Michael Hasenstab and Jeffrey Gundlach. Such figures are the public faces of the mutual fund industry, for good or ...
Trust Me, I'm a Fund Manager; Financial firms are rolling out a bevy of mutual funds that let their managers invest in pretty much anything. Should investors give them the reins?
SmartMoney.comFlatlining. That, in a word, is what mutual fund assets have been doing over the past four years, according to the Investment Company Institute, slipping even from their $12 trillion level at the end of 2007. No wonder investors are ...
Funky Mutual Fund Grooming; At year's end, some mutual funds buy stocks of recent highfliers to make themselves look better. How to see through the makeover.
SmartMoney.comIn a stock market this rocky, it's only natural to want a savvy portfolio manager. And judging by the quarterly reports that most investors get at the end of the year, some managers may in fact look pretty smart -- after all, as the ...
Funds That Fought Volatility -- and Won; While stocks have lost 3% over the past three months, some mutual funds have managed a lot better.
SmartMoney.comDespite a record stock-market rally in October, equities lost about 3% over the last three months of turbulent trading. But some stock mutual funds managed the choppy markets better than others.
For Funds, Is It Bad to Be Big? Conventional wisdom says yes, but does the data back it up?
SmartMoney.comIs bigger better? For years, when it came to mutual funds the answer has been a resounding no. And yet a closer look reveals that fund size matters much less than investors may realize.
When Index Funds Lose; The low-cost, market-tracking funds have their fans -- but they're not right all the time.
SmartMoney.comAt first glance, a new report from Standard & Poor's tells a familiar story: index funds outperform active management, part 37. But a closer look shows that under the right conditions, funds run by a human stock-picker can be well ...
Foreign Funds: The Secrets of Their Success? Despite turmoil in Europe and Japan, developed markets funds are holding their ground. Will their run continue?
SmartMoney.comGiven the economic crisis in Europe and the malaise in Japan, foreign funds with a focus on developed markets really ought to be in the tank. And yet developed markets funds are holding up quite well. How are they doing it?
Can Fidelity Build a Better Bond Ladder? With five new funds, the $1.6 trillion fund firm takes aim at retirees
SmartMoney.comThe fund firm that brought you the target-date fund now thinks it can reinvent the musty bond ladder – just as millions of baby boomers are starting to take seriously the question of retirement income.
New Grades for Mutual Funds; A sneak peek at four winners and four losers under Morningstar's new ratings system.
SmartMoney.comThe fund world's most influential grader is about to get tougher. Morningstar, the fund ratings company that has for years bestowed stars on top performing funds, has announced a new ratings system that threatens to upend the fund ...
Global Funds With Room to Roam; A growing group of "go anywhere" funds offer world-beating returns -- if you trust the manager.
SmartMoney.comThe Japanese earthquake and nuclear crisis. Deepening debt woes across Europe. Tumult in the Middle East. Faced with increasingly treacherous global markets, investors have been turning to mutual funds which give managers the freedom to buy ...
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