Who was Morningstar's fund manager of the year for 2005?
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Winners Demonstrate Investment Excellence and Stewardship in a Year of Mixed\n                                   Results\n\n    CHICAGO, Jan. 4 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- In a year when international-\nstock funds soared, bond funds struggled, and domestic-stock funds fell\nsomewhere in the middle, the best fund managers demonstrated that even when\nthe markets are mixed, superb analysis, long-term focus, and outstanding\nstewardship make a difference.\n    To recognize the best fund managers, Morningstar, Inc., a leading provider\nof independent investment research, each year selects leaders in three\ncategories -- domestic stock, international stock, and fixed income. Today,\nMorningstar announced its 2005 Fund Manager of the Year award winners:\n\n     -- Domestic-Stock Fund Manager of the Year:\n        Christopher Davis and Ken Charles Feinberg\n        Selected American Shares (SLASX)\n        Davis NY Venture A (NYVTX)\n\n     -- International-Stock Fund Manager of the Year:\n        Robert Lyon, Matthew Pickering and Jerrold Senser\n        ICAP International (ICEUX)\n\n     -- Fixed-Income Fund Manager of the Year:\n        Tad Rivelle, Laird Landmann, Stephen Kane, and David Lippman\n        Metropolitan West Total Return Bond (MWTRX)\n\n    "This year's winners are longtime Morningstar favorites. We've recommended\nthese managers for years, and they have long been on the Morningstar Analyst\nPicks list," said Kunal Kapoor, director of mutual fund analysis for\nMorningstar. "The managers at Davis Selected Advisers, ICAP and Metropolitan\nWest stand out for their attention to fees, investing in the funds they\noversee and their respect for shareholders with all-around strong\nstewardship."\n\n    Domestic-Stock Fund Manager of the Year:\n    Christopher Davis and Ken Charles Feinberg\n    Selected American Shares (SLASX)\n    Davis NY Venture A (NYVTX)\n\n    Chris Davis and Ken Feinberg maintain a tight focus on producing good\nlong-term results for shareholders. They seldom trade, take heed of\ntransaction costs and taxes, maintain low expenses and avoid short-term bets.\nEven though interest rates rose steadily in 2005, this team's superb stock-\npicking ability helped their financials-heavy portfolio buck conventional\nwisdom and trump the S&P 500 Index by 5 percent.\n    In 2004, Davis Selected Advisers demonstrated its strengths as a steward\nof shareholders' capital by instituting a less expensive, directly sold share\nclass (D class) for Selected American, which resulted in a sizable fee cut for\nthose who invest through the firm, rather than with a supermarket.\n    In 2005, the team at Davis Selected Advisers set a higher standard for\nstewardship. After being named as the management team to oversee the Clipper\nFund, the employees at Selected Advisers immediately invested $50 million of\ntheir money into the fund, and they offered Clipper's shareholders a nearly 50\npercent cut in management fees.\n    "This firm sets the bar for others in the industry," Kapoor said. "At a\ntime when other firms don't always do what is best for their shareholders,\nit's refreshing to see a firm so committed to the long-term welfare of\nfundholders. Davis and Feinberg were runners-up for our 2004 Domestic-Stock\nFund Manager of the Year, and they deserve this year's award. They follow in\nthe footsteps of Shelby Davis, Chris' dad, who won the Domestic-Stock Fund\nManager of the Year award in 1996."\n\n    International-Stock Fund Manager of the Year:\n    Robert Lyon, Matthew Pickering and Jerrold Senser\n    ICAP International (ICEUX)\n\n    In May 2005, the ICAP International Fund team, led by Rob Lyon, converted\nthe fund from a Europe fund to one with a broad foreign-stock mandate, in\norder to invest in Japanese companies the fund team found to be attractive.\nThis proved to be a fortuitous move as Japan enjoyed quite a rally in 2005.\nThe fund,
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# Warren Buffett\n# Donald Trump\n# Benjamin Graham\n# Bill Gates Foundation\n# Japan’s Mitsubishi\n# Britain’s City Group\n# Russia’s Alfa Bank\n# Jeff Bezos - Internet entrepreneur, philanthropist, and Amazon.com founder.\n# Michael Bloomberg - American businessman, Bloomberg media and New York City mayor.\n# Richard Branson - British entrepreneur and Virgin brand founder.\n# Sergey Brin - Founder of the Google search engine company and internet entrepreneur.\n# Stephen Covey - Motivational author of "The 7 Habits of Highly Successful People".\n# Wendi Deng - Wife of the wealthy media mogul Rupert Murdoch.\n# Ben Graham - Famous stock market investor known as the "father of investing".\n# Alan Greenspan - Financial guru and Federal Reserve Chairman of the United States.\n# Steve Jobs -Cofounder and CEO of Apple Computer Co, founder of NeXT and sits on the board of directors for Pixar.\n#Li Ka Shing - Asia's richest man and billionaire businessman of Hutchison Whampoa.\n#Robert Kiyosaki - Personal finance expert, real estate investor and financial author of the "Rich Dad" series of books.\n# Jesse Livermore - Famous stock market trader and Wall Street investor.\n# Peter Lynch - Famous stock market investor and successful funds manager.\n# Lakshmi Mittal - Indian born British steel billionaire and one of the richest men in the world according to Forbes business magazine.\n# Rupert Murdoch - News Corporation CEO, newspaper man and media magnate.\n# Kerry Packer - Media mogul and Australia's richest man.\n# Larry Page - Co-founder of the Google search engine company and internet entrepreneur.\n# George Soros - Stocks and currency trader and billionaire philanthropist\n# Martha Stewart - Famous entrepreneur, media personality of Martha Stewart Living, once convicted of Insider Trading.\n# Sam Walton - American businessman and founder of Wal-Mart retail stores.\n# Jack Welch - Famous business leader and former CEO of General Electric (GE).\n# Steve Wynn - Billionaire Las Vegas real estate developer and art collector.
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What are you after, stock trading, mutual funds, etf's?\n\nTry Schwab, Fidelity & Vanguard. Vanguard & Fidelity are always competing for lowest cost mutual funds. Schwab & Fidelity compete on discount stock trading. Can't go wrong with either of the 3 companies. If you have at least $50K then you can get some good deals on commissions from Schwab or Fidelity.
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0.25% of the Share Transation Value.\n\nCA. Deepak Bholusaria
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I do most of my research at Morningstar, but I use MSN for charts (see link below).
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2005 Roy J. Glauber, John L. Hall, Theodor W. Hänsch\n\n2004 David J. Gross, H. David Politzer, Frank Wilczek\n\n2003 Alexei A. Abrikosov, Vitaly L. Ginzburg, Anthony J. Leggett\n\n2002 Raymond Davis Jr., Masatoshi Koshiba, Riccardo Giacconi\n\n2001 Eric A. Cornell, Wolfgang Ketterle, Carl E. Wieman\n\n2000 Zhores I. Alferov, Herbert Kroemer, Jack S. Kilby\n\n1999 Gerardus 't Hooft, Martinus J.G. Veltman\n\n1998 Robert B. Laughlin, Horst L. Störmer, Daniel C. Tsui\n\n1997 Steven Chu, Claude Cohen-Tannoudji, William D. Phillips\n\n1996 David M. Lee, Douglas D. Osheroff, Robert C. Richardson\n\n1995 Martin L. Perl, Frederick Reines\n\n1994 Bertram N. Brockhouse, Clifford G. Shull\n\n1993 Russell A. Hulse, Joseph H. Taylor Jr.\n\n1992 Georges Charpak\n\n1991 Pierre-Gilles de Gennes\n\n1990 Jerome I. Friedman, Henry W. Kendall, Richard E. Taylor\n\n1989 Norman F. Ramsey, Hans G. Dehmelt, Wolfgang Paul\n\n1988 Leon M. Lederman, Melvin Schwartz, Jack Steinberger\n\n1987 J. Georg Bednorz, K. Alex Müller\n\n1986 Ernst Ruska, Gerd Binnig, Heinrich Rohrer\n\n1985 Klaus von Klitzing\n\n1984 Carlo Rubbia, Simon van der Meer\n\n1983 Subramanyan Chandrasekhar, William A. Fowler\n\n1982 Kenneth G. Wilson\n\n1981 Nicolaas Bloembergen, Arthur L. Schawlow, Kai M. Siegbahn\n\n1980 James Cronin, Val Fitch\n\n1979 Sheldon Glashow, Abdus Salam, Steven Weinberg\n\n1978 Pyotr Kapitsa, Arno Penzias, Robert Woodrow Wilson\n\n1977 Philip W. Anderson, Sir Nevill F. Mott, John H. van Vleck\n\n1976 Burton Richter, Samuel C.C. Ting\n\n1975 Aage N. Bohr, Ben R. Mottelson, James Rainwater\n\n1974 Martin Ryle, Antony Hewish\n\n1973 Leo Esaki, Ivar Giaever, Brian D. Josephson\n\n1972 John Bardeen, Leon N. Cooper, Robert Schrieffer\n\n1971 Dennis Gabor\n\n1970 Hannes Alfvén, Louis Néel\n\n1969 Murray Gell-Mann\n\n1968 Luis Alvarez\n\n1967 Hans Bethe\n\n1966 Alfred Kastler\n\n1965 Sin-Itiro Tomonaga, Julian Schwinger, Richard P. Feynman\n\n1964 Charles H. Townes, Nicolay G. Basov, Aleksandr M. Prokhorov\n\n1963 Eugene Wigner, Maria Goeppert-Mayer, J. Hans D. Jensen\n\n1962 Lev Landau\n\n1961 Robert Hofstadter, Rudolf Mössbauer\n\n1960 Donald A. Glaser\n\n1959 Emilio Segrè, Owen Chamberlain\n\n1958 Pavel A. Cherenkov, Il´ja M. Frank, Igor Y. Tamm\n\n1957 Chen Ning Yang, Tsung-Dao Lee\n\n1956 William B. Shockley, John Bardeen, Walter H. Brattain\n\n1955 Willis E. Lamb, Polykarp Kusch\n\n1954 Max Born, Walther Bothe\n\n1953 Frits Zernike\n\n1952 Felix Bloch, E. M. Purcell\n\n1951 John Cockcroft, Ernest T.S. Walton\n\n1950 Cecil Powell\n\n1949 Hideki Yukawa\n\n1948 Patrick M.S. Blackett\n\n1947 Edward V. Appleton\n\n1946 Percy W. Bridgman\n\n1945 Wolfgang Pauli\n\n1944 Isidor Isaac Rabi\n\n1943 Otto Stern\n\n1942 The prize money was with 1/3 allocated to the Main Fund and with 2/3 to the Special Fund of this prize section\n\n1941 The prize money was with 1/3 allocated to the Main Fund and with 2/3 to the Special Fund of this prize section\n\n1940 The prize money was with 1/3 allocated to the Main Fund and with 2/3 to the Special Fund of this prize section\n\n1939 Ernest Lawrence\n\n1938 Enrico Fermi\n\n1937 Clinton Davisson, George Paget Thomson\n\n1936 Victor F. Hess, Carl D. Anderson\n\n1935 James Chadwick\n\n1934 The prize money was with 1/3 allocated to the Main Fund and with 2/3 to the Special Fund of this prize section\n\n1933 Erwin Schrödinger, Paul A.M. Dirac\n\n1932 Werner Heisenberg\n\n1931 The prize money was allocated to the Special Fund of this prize section\n\n1930 Venkata Raman\n\n1929 Louis de Broglie\n\n1928 Owen Willans Richardson\n\n1927 Arthur H. Compton, C.T.R. Wilson\n\n1926 Jean Baptiste Perrin\n\n1925 James Franck, Gustav Hertz\n\n1924 Manne Siegbahn\n\n1923 Robert A. Millikan\n\n1922 Niels Bohr\n\n1921 Albert Einstein\n\n1920 Charles Edouard Guillaume\n\n1919 Johannes Stark\n\n1918 Max Planck\n\n1917 Charles Glover Barkla\n\n1916 The prize money was allocated to the Special Fund of this prize section\n\n1915 William Bragg, Lawren
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how about the S&W 500
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fidelity and morningstar are both good to research fund and stock
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Not sure what you're looking for, but it has 3 stars from Morningstar. Not a terribly attractive option, in my opinion.
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One good choice would be to invest in a no-load mutual fund. I suggest either T.Rowe Price, Vanguard, or Fidelity.  Here are a couple of websites to help you choose a good performer.  Don't let an investment representative fool you into thinking he's worth the 5% or more commission he'll charge.  You can do your own homework, and probably get better results.  I know I do.  Good luck.  Don't be intimidated.\n\nhttp://screen.morningstar.com/fundsearch/FundRank.html http://biz.yahoo.com/p/top.html\nhttp://screen.morningstar.com/fundsearch/FundRank.html
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http://www.iwillteachyoutoberich.com/archives/2005/10/bernankes_stock.html\n\nHowever, he actually does only more than one stock. Please read the following article:\nhttp://money.cnn.com/2005/10/26/news/newsmakers/fed_bernanke_portfolio/
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1. Bill Gates, United States,$46.5, Microsoft\n2. Warren Buffett, United States, $44, Berkshire Hathaway\n3. Lakshmi Mittal, India, $25, steel\n4. Carlos Slim Helu, Mexico, $23.8, telecom\n5. Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Alsaud, Saudi Arabia, $23.7, investments\n6. Ingvar Kamprad, Sweden, $23, Ikea\n7. Paul Allen, United States, $21, Microsoft\n8. Karl Albrecht, Germany, 85, $18.5, supermarkets\n9. Larry Ellison, United States, $18.4, Oracle\n10. S. Robson Walton, United States, $18.3, Wal-Mart
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That's Simple.\n\nIf you have 10+years, there are several balanced mutual/index funds, that have returned more than 10% on average.\n\nUse a fund stock screener - you can see them - pay attention to upfront and ongoing expenses.\n\nIs it the best way? - It's the only one I know that is available to the average guy.\n\nGood Luck!
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www.morningstar.com might have some stuff. \nother then that... im a stock retard and i got a D in Econ. when i gratuated haha
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Marketocracy.com lets you run virtual mutual funds and compare your performance with others.\n\nHere is a fund that I ran from January 2003 to December 2005.\n\nhttp://www.marketocracy.com/cgi-bin/WebObjects/Portfolio.woa/ps/FundPublicPage/source=CnPoCeEoDoBhLeKjMaKiAbDf\n\nExcellent learning tool.
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Per, Jim Cramer, you should invest in Mutual Fund managers.  He recommends Willian Danoff, the manager of the Fidelity Contrafund.  It has done so well, it is closing the doors to new invesors in a couple of weeks.  Better Hurry up if you want to get in on the action.
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It really depends on what you're looking at ... M&A, underwritting or something else... I personally feel Goldman Sachs is percieved as the best ibank. I would put Lehman Brothers in a close second.