Junk-bond funds are OK â in small amounts
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Q: My wife and I bought $60,000 worth of Lehman Brothers First Trust Opportunity Fund (ticker: LBC) in March 2004. This represents 25 percent of our investments.
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Avoid the key mistakes small investors make.
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Some newer ETFs are facing low trading volume and wider spreads.
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Some mutual funds invest in stocks;  others invest in bonds. Now a new breed of funds is offering  the chance to own fine art.
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What's a simple old-fashioned bond investor to do? Yields remain stubbornly skimpy everywhere you look in the market for interest-bearing securities. The going rate on 10-year Treasury notes, at a bit more than 4.5 percent, languishes far below its average of 6.3 percent over the past 20 years.
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Low-priced stocks can sometimes hold overlooked investment opportunities.
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Mutual fund fees may look small, but they can eat much of your earnings.
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Stop treating your cash like trash.   With yields on money market mutual funds pushing 5 percent,   it's time to stop ignoring the returns you're getting on the   money you have saved for a rainy day.
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Low-priced stocks can be cheap for a reason, but some present overlooked investment opportunities.
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NEW YORK -- Wall Street's fourth-quarter rally gave stock mutual funds a solid performance for 2004, with small-cap equity funds and real estate funds scoring some of the biggest returns. Large-cap growth equities and technology-focused funds had the slimmest gains.
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While low-priced stocks can be cheap for a reason, they might also be overlooked opportunities.
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Are these low-priced stocks cheap for a reason, or overlooked opportunities?
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Investor's Business Daily - These are good times for owners of mutual funds that go short.
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Another round of cheap stocks for the value investor's soul.
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Exchange-traded funds are a nifty idea, but itâs easy for investors to make mistakes with them. Here are four ETFs Morningstar likes.
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Low-priced stocks can be cheap for a reason, but they might also present some overlooked opportunities.
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IT is time to take a break from the junk bond market, which is overheating as companies rush to lock in surprisingly low interest rates before the Federal Reserve pushes them any higher.