Do Reopened Funds Perform Better?
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How investors fare when closed funds start taking new money again.
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Rebalancing a portfolio works best when it's linked to performance.
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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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It's time to give your funds a checkup.
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Though closed to new money, these large-cap funds still excel.
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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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With the U.S. economy likely to slow next year, many investors are looking to add more international exposure to their portfolios in hopes of winning higher returns. A number of global mutual funds offer what seems like easy one-stop shopping, but experts warn that all are not created equal.
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Sometimes it helps to go back to the beginning and start simple -- to relearn why you've invested in mutual funds and how to make the most of them.
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Stable value funds promise higher returns, but at what price?
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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 the biggest returns. Large-cap growth equities and technology-focused funds had the slimmest gains.
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Investor's Business Daily - These are good times for owners of mutual funds that go short.
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Growth is back! That's the message from the strong start mutual fund investors have enjoyed since the New Year. Growth-oriented funds have trumped value-oriented funds in all three capitalization categories -- large, mid-cap, and small .
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Are your mutual funds doing the right thing? You can find out.
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Smaller is better. Ask anyone in the stock market. By the end of 2004, smaller stocks will have outperformed larger stocks for a remarkable sixth straight year. Can they continue to hold that advantage in 2005? I would bet against it.
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The Motley Fool - It's not always easy make sense of the information that flows at us via the financial media. Consider, for example, this nugget that I ran across at investmentadvisor.com: "Standard &amp; Poor's latest mutual fund persistence scorecard, released in mid-August, found that through June 30, very few funds were able to consistently repeat top half or top quartile performance."
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Closed-end mutual funds offer more bang for your investing buck as long as they are trading at a discount.
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It can get ugly when investors chase returns.