IA > Mutual Funds http://www.investmentadvisor.com Copyright 2008 News, Advice, Events & Analysis for Independent Advisors & RIAs en-us http://www.investmentadvisor.com/images/ia_logo122x21.gif IA > Mutual Funds http://www.investmentadvisor.com Templeton Passes http://www.investmentadvisor.com/article.php?article=8979 Tue, 22 Jul 2008 11:34:00 -0400 Robert F. Keane Finance http://www.investmentadvisor.com/article.php?article=8979 Fund founder, philanthropist, and spiritual seeker was 95

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]]> Ameriprise Financial to Acquire Seligman http://www.investmentadvisor.com/article.php?article=8981 Tue, 22 Jul 2008 09:03:00 -0400 Robert F. Keane Finance http://www.investmentadvisor.com/article.php?article=8981 Venerable asset management firm to come under RiverSource umbrella

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]]> Another Institutional Capital Fund from Mainstay http://www.investmentadvisor.com/article.php?article=8947 Fri, 11 Jul 2008 17:29:00 -0400 James J. Green Finance http://www.investmentadvisor.com/article.php?article=8947 Looking globally at $2 billion-plus companies

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]]> Hedge Funds Do Well as Equity Markets Slide http://www.investmentadvisor.com/article.php?article=8944 Fri, 11 Jul 2008 11:28:00 -0400 Melanie Waddell Finance http://www.investmentadvisor.com/article.php?article=8944 During the second quarter, hedge fund managers performed better as they maintained well-hedged, tighter exposures

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]]> More Equity Funds http://www.investmentadvisor.com/article.php?article=8946 Fri, 11 Jul 2008 10:25:00 -0400 James J. Green Finance http://www.investmentadvisor.com/article.php?article=8946 Schwab adds two to Laudus Funds

Schwab’s Laudus Funds, which partners with third-party money managers, has added international equity and global equity mutual funds from London-based Mondrian Investment Partners Ltd. to its lineup.

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]]> Putnam’s New People http://www.investmentadvisor.com/article.php?article=8948 Fri, 11 Jul 2008 09:31:00 -0400 Finance http://www.investmentadvisor.com/article.php?article=8948 Four fund managers join the firm

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]]> Blair Welcomes Back Balkin http://www.investmentadvisor.com/article.php?article=8951 Fri, 11 Jul 2008 09:19:00 -0400 Kara P. Stapleton Finance http://www.investmentadvisor.com/article.php?article=8951 New investors also welcomed into small-cap growth fund

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]]> Saving the Stock Market http://www.investmentadvisor.com/article.php?article=8937 Tue, 1 Jul 2008 10:24:00 -0400 Ben Warwick Finance http://www.investmentadvisor.com/article.php?article=8937 Worries about housing and energy are making the psychological effects of the market downturn even worse—Searching for Alpha, the monthly index newsletter for July 2008

After April and May’s resilient comeback for stocks, weakness in the finance sector dragged the market down significantly in June, resulting in the third consecutive losing quarter for the S&P 500 index. Most of the problems, as expected, were mortgage-related. With analysts absolutely moribund, investor psychology wrecked, and large cap indexes at 2008 lows, investors must be wondering if there’s any chance of short-term relief for this market.

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]]> Riding The Rally In Natural Resources http://www.investmentadvisor.com/article.php?article=8922 Tue, 1 Jul 2008 00:00:00 -0400 Vaughan Scully and Beth Piskora Finance http://www.investmentadvisor.com/article.php?article=8922

Investors have suffered a double dose of bad news this year. As the U.S. economy slows under the weight of the weakened housing market, a strong rally in major commodity markets, especially oil, is setting off alarm bells portending stronger inflation.

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]]> More at Vanguard http://www.investmentadvisor.com/article.php?article=8935 Fri, 27 Jun 2008 08:49:00 -0400 Kara P. Stapleton Finance http://www.investmentadvisor.com/article.php?article=8935 Adding funds and reducing fees

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]]> Mining Prospectus Data http://www.investmentadvisor.com/article.php?article=8866 Mon, 16 Jun 2008 12:30:00 -0400 Melanie Waddell Finance http://www.investmentadvisor.com/article.php?article=8866 NewRiver product uses data from prospectuses to meet retirement plan participants’ needs

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]]> New Advisor for Vanguard's Explorer Fund http://www.investmentadvisor.com/article.php?article=8865 Mon, 16 Jun 2008 05:22:00 -0400 Melanie Waddell Finance http://www.investmentadvisor.com/article.php?article=8865 Century Capital Management, LLC, named as the seventh advisor to the $11 billion fund

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]]> A New Growth Fund from Franklin Templeton http://www.investmentadvisor.com/article.php?article=8867 Sat, 14 Jun 2008 13:48:00 -0400 Kara P. Stapleton Finance http://www.investmentadvisor.com/article.php?article=8867 Aiming to invest in mid- and large-cap outside the U.S.

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]]> Pershing Adds to FundVest Platform http://www.investmentadvisor.com/article.php?article=8863 Fri, 13 Jun 2008 10:20:00 -0400 Kara P. Stapleton Finance http://www.investmentadvisor.com/article.php?article=8863 American Funds, JennisonDryden, OppenheimerFunds and Van Eck Global added to lineup

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]]> A New Direxion http://www.investmentadvisor.com/article.php?article=8861 Fri, 13 Jun 2008 10:13:00 -0400 Kara P. Stapleton Finance http://www.investmentadvisor.com/article.php?article=8861 Long-Short Fund benchmarked to the Standard & Poor’s Commodity Trends Indicator

Direxion Funds has launched the Commodity Trends Strategy, benchmarked to the Standard & Poor’s Commodity Trends Indicator (S&P CTI). The Fund gives investment advisors and investors access to a” diversified, open-ended commodity mutual fund that allows them to benefit from both rising and falling commodity prices.”

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]]> Rydex’s New Leveraged & Inverse ETFs http://www.investmentadvisor.com/article.php?article=8862 Thu, 12 Jun 2008 10:16:00 -0400 Kara P. Stapleton Finance http://www.investmentadvisor.com/article.php?article=8862 Exposure to energy, healthcare, financials, and technology

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]]> (Re)Opened for Business http://www.investmentadvisor.com/article.php?article=8793 Sun, 1 Jun 2008 00:00:00 -0400 Savita Iyer-Ahrestani Finance http://www.investmentadvisor.com/article.php?article=8793 Dodge & Cox is once again taking names and welcoming advisors’ clients to its signature Stock Fund

In last year’s annual letter to their shareholders, the managers of Dodge & Cox Stock’s $54.6 billion stock fund wrote that outperforming the S&P 500 in the current market would be a “real challenge.” Sure, the Stock Fund (DODGX) underperformed the S&P in 2007, but one bad year can’t harm a product that commands this much respect.

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]]> Nine Acting as One http://www.investmentadvisor.com/article.php?article=8794 Sun, 1 Jun 2008 00:00:00 -0400 Finance http://www.investmentadvisor.com/article.php?article=8794

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]]> Best World Bond Funds http://www.investmentadvisor.com/article.php?article=8814 Sun, 1 Jun 2008 00:00:00 -0400 Beth Piskora Finance http://www.investmentadvisor.com/article.php?article=8814

You’ve heard it said dozens of times: Foreign assets pay off particularly well during times of a declining dollar. This is true not only about stocks, but also bonds. When foreign countries or companies issue bonds that are purchased by U.S. investors, their value, upon maturity, will increase in dollar terms should foreign currencies strengthen against the U.S. dollar.

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]]> No Mimicry Here http://www.investmentadvisor.com/article.php?article=8729 Thu, 1 May 2008 00:00:00 -0400 Kathleen M. McBride Finance http://www.investmentadvisor.com/article.php?article=8729 An aversion to risk and comfort with a portfolio that doesn’t mimic indexes has helped Delafield Fund perform well over the long haul

It’s times like these when clients may ask advisors all kinds of questions; they may ask what kinds of investments have the potential to do better over the course of flat or down markets or whether a value or growth investment style tends to benefit on the way out of bear markets.

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