Socially attuned fund beats S&amp;P
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Daniel Boone, whose Calvert Social Investment Equity Fund outperformed the Standard &amp; Poor&#39;s 500 Index for the past five years, buys shares only of US companies with policies that benefit employees and the environment.
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NEW YORK  -The S&P 500 index  climbed to a record on Friday, surpassing levels reached during the Internet bubble, as General Electric Co.  increased a stock-buyback plan and data showed improving consumer sentiment.
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Why isn't my stock fund doing better this year? Have you heard that lately? True, recent memory will remind you things could be a lot worse. But at this late stage of the year, a few broad stock-fund trends stick out: Value is beating growth, and small is outrunning large when it comes to the size of the companies a ...
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Q. I found an article on Yahoo Finance titled, ``Why Mutual Funds Are Lousy Investments: Why the Rich Get Richer." Very interesting. Have you done any columns on this subject -- fund fees -- which you can point me to? You have always recommended mutual funds, especially index funds.
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Here's an update of my annual Variable Annuity Watch. This year the purchase of a simple broad index fund again beat a large majority of variable annuity sub-accounts.
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First it was Fidelity, the second-biggest mutual fund family in the United States. It announced 12 days ago that it was slashing the expense fees on five of its index funds.
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Learn more about a South African ETF.
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Investor's Business Daily - U.S. stock funds in November posted their best month in a year and made it three up months in a row, as stocks resumed their climb after a poor showing in the first half .
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BOSTON (CBS.MW) -- Investors added $3.7 billion to stock mutual funds for the week ending Dec. 29, compared with $3.2 billion last week, TrimTabs Investment Research reported Thursday.
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Say this for money -- it can make a great investment. That thought struck me, not for the first time, as I glanced recently over a Bloomberg table of the best-performing US stock mutual funds during the past 10 years. Four of the top 12 in this otherwise heterogeneous list specialized in the financial industries.
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Wall Street stocks managed to gain Friday as investors looked past a sharp rise in oil prices and cheered the strength of Ford Motor Co.
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Last year's list of the fastest-growing tech companies beat both the S&amp;P 500 and the Nasdaq Composite index.
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WASHINGTON, August 18 (Xinhuanet) -- Fund managers this month boosted the proportion of assets held in cash to the highest level since March 2003 when a global stocks rebound began, said the Washington Post on Wednesday.
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Australia&#39;s S&amp;P/ASX 200 Index was little changed. News Corp. advanced as investors who track the Standard &amp; Poor&#39;s 500 Index bought shares ahead of the stock&#39;s addition to the US benchmark next month.
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Investor's Business Daily - Short exchange traded funds got a small boost this week as the Dow Jones industrial average lost 416 points and the Nasdaq composite dropped 96.66 Tuesday. But that doesn't mean you should necessarily chase them, says ProShares Advisors CIO Bill Seale.
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Dow Jones -0,43%, Standard Poor's -0,30%
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Investor's Business Daily - Domestic stock funds had a rough June, but managed to hold on to solid performance for the second quarter and year to date. Growth beat value for the month, quarter and year to date.