Fund Focus: Bear Funds Come Roaring Back as Market Rally Slides
9:00 AM 6/18/2010
Bear funds, which are pessimistic mutual funds, have delivered the highest total returns since the market rally ended in late April. But make no mistake: They are risky. And some are built around scary doomsday scenarios.
Alex Crooke of the Henderson Global Equity Income Fund prefers to invest in companies outside the U.S. because, he believes, they earn higher dividend yields -- an interesting approach as U.S. markets roil unpredictably.
Fund Focus: Osterweis Has a Key Metric That's Proven Its Worth
9:00 AM 5/24/2010
Osterweis Fund's managers use a stock-picking method that relies on "free cash yield." And the fund has a record for performing relatively well, even during stock-market downturns.
Fund Focus: Brian Stack Charts a Profitable New Course for Pioneer Fund
10:42 AM 5/14/2010
Brian Stack used the crash of 2008 to revamp the Pioneer Growth Opportunities Fund, and since then, its performance has risen from the bottom of its peer group to the top.
Peter Langerman's Franklin Mutual Series fund family invests like a private equity fund or hedge fund when it wants to, even though the clients are retail investors who pay low fees on small deposits.
Fund Focus: Masters' Select Offers Diversification -- With Risks
11:25 AM 4/30/2010
The Masters' Select Equity Fund, managed by Jeremy DeGroot, aims to take a big decision off your hands by investing across five investment styles and cap sizes. But an investor in this fund would be exposed to one big risk -- active stock picking.
Fund Focus: Marc Heilweil's Five-Star Instinct Beats the Spreadsheets
9:00 AM 4/23/2010
Columns, Investing, Exxon Mobil, Coca-Cola Company, Tiffany & Co, GlaxoSmithKline
Fund manager Marc Heilweil is an old-school investor who usually outperforms the competition by using his instincts -- not spreadsheets crammed with numbers -- to spot good companies at those rare times when they are trading cheaply.
Fund Focus: For Pro-Blend, Not Beating the S&P Just Won't Do
8:00 AM 4/17/2010
In 2008, the Manning & Napier Pro-Blend Maximum Term Series outperformed the S&P 500 Index for the 10th year in a row, but in the recent recovery, the fund is starting to fall a bit behind. Find out what stocks its clever portfolio managers are betting on to get back ahead of the curve.
Fund Focus: Just Ignore These Funds' Triple-Digit Returns
12:20 PM 4/9/2010
Direxion Funds appear to be delivering stellar returns. That's because they're leveraged ETFs, which also makes them extremely risky. Even a top Direxion exec warns individual investors to "not pay attention to our funds and forget they ever saw them." Here's why.
Fund Focus: RS Small Cap Growth Returns From the Depths of 2008
12:30 PM 4/2/2010
After the fund landed in the worst-in-class category in a rough 2008, portfolio manager Alison Thacker appears to be in the process of dragging it out. How it might fare in other crisis is an open question, but at least it's moving up again now.
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