Hotel buyouts a bonanza for many mutual funds
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Hotel buyouts are proving a bonanza for mutual funds which snapped up Hilton, Marriott and other hotel stocks after the September 11, 2001, attacks.
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Private deal makers still seem to have a voracious appetite for commercial real estate, and the sector du jour is hotels and lodging.
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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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The bid from a pension fund and private equity firm would be among the largest leveraged buyouts ever.
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You spot a stock mutual fund that looks promising: A 200% gain in 10 years. You lean back in your leather chair. "Farnsworth!" you shout into the intercom. "Pull &#36;12,000 from the safe and invest it in The Whizbang Fund! I smell money!"
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To woo business from Fidelity Investments traders, a New York brokerage firm showered them with pricey gifts such as private vacations and golf outings, tickets to a Justin Timberlake and Christina Aguilera concert, parties at the 2004 Super Bowl in Houston sponsored by Playboy and Maxim magazines, and a dozen bottles of Chateau Petrus wine worth $625 apiece.
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Fidelity Investments pays its mutual fund managers handsomely to do one thing: outsmart the stock market.
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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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Last year 22 realty trusts got takeover offers. Here's how you can profit from the trend.
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Through good times and bad, this mutual fund has delivered.
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If a mutual fund can be said to be like a general store in the variety it can offer, then a fund of funds would certainly resemble a warehouse retailer, allowing investors to pick up enormous variety all under one roof.
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Investor's Business Daily - These are good times for owners of mutual funds that go short.
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Buying a lot of shares can mean a whole lot of risk.
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Investors are allowed to put the money in their I.R.A.âs into almost anything, be it condominiums or airplanes. A growing number of people are doing just that.
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Some retirement funds are quietly beginning to plow billions of dollars of little old ladiesÂ pensions into supersized takeover deals.
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For the first time in a decade, new investors will be able to put money into a mutual fund that helped fuel Fidelity Investmentsâ rapid growth.
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Management leads a $4.7 billion buyout bid. Are other bids on the way?