Index Funds Beat Most Active Managers
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Most mutual fund managers failed to beat the major market indexes last year, according to a report from Standard &amp; Poor's, reflecting a trend that shows passive investing delivers better returns over the long haul.
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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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Which funds are buying Wall Street's most wanted?
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More than 56 percent of U.S. money managers are "bullish" or "very bullish" about the U.S. stock market near term, forecasting stocks will move higher in the next eight months, according to a new Barron's poll.
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Fidelity Investments' largest funds voted to oust Michael D. Eisner from the chairman's post at Walt Disney Co., in one of last year's biggest proxy battles, according to voting records the nation's largest mutual-fund firm has made public for the first time.
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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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na tough year on Wall Street, Israel A. Englander should be riding high. His $3.5 billion in hedge funds are up more than 8 percent - at a time when the stock market is barely up for the year.
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Assets of the nation's retail money market mutual funds rose by $5.64 billion in the latest week to $875.21 billion, the Investment Company Institute said Thursday.
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Index funds aren&#39;t splashy. They never lead the &quot;mutual fund of the month&quot; lists or get plugged by commentators on the financial news.
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Putnam Investments yesterday overhauled the investment groups that manage small and midsized stocks, in an effort to boost performance in several funds. Two veteran fund managers are retiring as part of the shake-up.
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Hedge funds are gaining in popularity as they pursue a host of investment strategies.
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Investor's Business Daily - Mutual funds, insurance companies, banks and other large institutional investors have giant pools of money to put to work. At the end of 2005, the assets of mutual funds -- who are among the biggest of the big boys -- totaled $8.9 trillion.
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Two isn't always more than one. With mutual funds, whether two managers are better than one depends on the individual fund.
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In the asset management industry, the corporate structures can get confusing -- and the numbers huge. BlackRock (NYSE: BLK), for example, is a large asset management firm with $314 billion under management.
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Investor's Business Daily - Exchange-traded funds have captured investors' fancy in a big way, growing exponentially faster than traditional mutual funds. Assets of all ETFs rose $121.66 billion, or 40.4%, to $422.48 billion in 2006, according to data collected by the Investment Company Institute.
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Who says mutual funds are sleepier and slower than stocks?
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Buy the same stocks the best fund managers buy.