Funds: Warning Signs for Fund Investors
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PORTLAND, Maine  - Of the more than 8,000 funds  available to investors, some are downright stinkers.  Fortunately, it's usually easy to identify the worst of them.
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As concerns about a possible recession increase, there are steps that investors can take to protect their portfolios.
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Avoid the key mistakes small investors make.
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The Motley Fool - We often warn investors to be wary of mutual funds with high turnover. Speedy turnover means the managers are rapidly jumping in and out of various investments -- rather than sticking with them -- and generating steep commission costs and tax hits along the way. We also urge investors themselves not to churn their own portfolios. If you don't have the patience to wait for the companies you believe in to perform -- well, then, you're really just speculating.
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The Federal Reserve tried to soothe Wall Streetâs nerves on Wednesday, but a fund manager frayed them by warning that two pillars of the financial markets might crumble.
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PORTLAND, Maine  - This decade has been a tough  one for fund investors. The average stock fund has lost almost  6 percent annually since the beginning of 2000, a return that  encompasses huge losses from 2000 through 2002 and big gains in  2003.
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How do individual investors have the upper hand against fund managers?
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Bank C.D.âs, bonds and money market funds may offer peace of mind to nervous investors.
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Watch how you say the ticker for this exchange-traded fund.
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Spotting the clues to buy before stocks rise.
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Here's the real threat facing investors right now.
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Make sure your investment's revenue stream is diversified -- or you could get hurt.
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Can there be such a thing as an excess of moderation? Mutual-fund investors seem bent on finding out. They have poured huge amounts of money lately into old-fashioned conservative stock-and-bond mutual funds.
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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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Investor's Business Daily - Mutual fund distributions of dividends and capital gains are headed up this year, and that could have a big impact on your taxes. Increases are expected to range from modest to strong, several fund families say.
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How to tell good fund managers from bad ones.
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Do other investors know something you don't?