Target funds useful but may be too generalized
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Q. Vanguard recently started a new fund class, Target Retirement funds. Each fund is pegged at a person's expected year of retirement. The funds automatically balance their holdings among US stocks, foreign stocks, and bonds in a mix appropriate to the retirement year. The expense ratio is 0.2 percent, which compares very well to its other index funds.
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Why it's smart to own actively and passively managed funds.
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When does it make sense to buy a high-fee fund?
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A quick primer on investing in tumultuous circumstances.
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Choosing your investments can be a way to express your personal values.
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Investor's Business Daily - At a time when rapid growth in hedge funds might suggest that their mutual fund counterparts -- long-short funds -- would also prove popular, few investors seem to have much appetite for mutual funds they can sell short.
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An increasingly popular choice when investing for retirement is using target-date, or life cycle, mutual funds.
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If you hate making retirement  investing decisions, you might love the latest mutual fund  trend: Target-date retirement funds that require you to choose  a fund once and then forget it for decades.
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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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Latin American mutual funds have wowed investors lately with stellar returns, but you might want to think twice before committing yourself heavily to the region: Analysts say a heavy concentration in two volatile markets makes them a risky gamble.
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Stable value funds promise higher returns, but at what price?
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Picking a winning stock fund is tricky. Once you've weighed a fund's portfolio, its management, its investment style and its trading habits, you might be tempted to rely on more old-fashioned methods, such as dart boards, Ouija boards and goat entrails instead.
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The case of the Teamser's pension fund illustrates that what may appear as a sensible approach to investing isn't always so sensible.
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Don't take certain investments for granted.
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Savvy investors can find retail bargains -- but not everything's on sale.
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Some exchange-traded funds aren't for anyone.
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You may have access to more money than you think -- just be careful.