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Humberto Cruz: Some mutual funds weathering downturn better than others (The Journal News)
After the burst of the technology bubble, the Standard and Poor's 500 stock index plunged 42 percent from April 2000 through February 2003. During the same period, three mutual funds I own that invest mostly in stocks posted gains averaging 35 percent.
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Belief Watch: Sharia-Led Islamic Mutual Funds (Newsweek)
The Amana funds, invested according to Sharia, have more than doubled since 2003, to $1.3 billion.
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FundWatch: Specialized mutual funds take fall with Fannie, Freddie (Market Watch)
Although the stocks of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac have recovered in recent days, their free fall this year as the housing slump threatened their capital has punished a number of mutual funds that have staked big claims on the mortgage agencies.
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Chuck Jaffe: Most money-market funds are safe from financial meltdown (Market Watch)
Edward in Brockton, Mass., got scared enough by the headlines a week ago that he did the unthinkable. He read the paperwork for his money-market mutual fund. What he found there made him more nervous, because the fund included a lot of paper from Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae.
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Stock Mutual Funds Saw $3.82 Billion Outflow Thursday-Wed - TrimTabs (Nasdaq)
NEW YORK -(Dow Jones)- Stock mutual funds saw an outflow of $3.82 billion during the week ended Wednesday, compared with an outflow of $7.08 billion during the previous week, according to TrimTabs Investment Research estimates.
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Mutual funds: What's hot, what's not (rediff.com)
Domestic brokerage Sharekhan's last month's analysis of buy and sell transactions by mutual funds shows that the fund houses purchased stocks from sectors such as infrastructure, IT, telecom and healthcare, while offloading shares from oil and gas and banking sectors. Domestic mutual funds are lapping up the buying opportunity present in the bear gripped stock market and made net purchases worth ...
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Update: SmartGrowth(R) Mutual Funds Celebrate Successful First Year Among the Top 2% in Performance Rankings in Their ... (Marketwire via Yahoo! Finance)
The SmartGrowth® Mutual Funds have recently celebrated a significant milestone as the series of three target-risk mutual funds reached their one-year anniversary among the top 2% in performance rankings in each of their respective Lipper classifications. As of June 30, 2008, the trio, consisting of the SmartGrowth® Lipper Optimal Conservative Index Fund, SmartGrowth® Lipper Optimal Moderate ...
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With three funds, you can be diversified (St. Louis Post-Dispatch)
You have made a believer out of me for passive investing and low-cost index mutual funds. Former Wall Street Journal columnist Jonathan Clements once suggested a diversified passive portfolio using three funds: a total U.S. market index, a foreign stock index and a bond index.
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Fannie and Freddie's woes no big threat to money market funds (San Francisco Chronicle)
Edward in Brockton, Mass., got scared enough by the news headlines a week ago that he did the unthinkable. He read the paperwork for his money market mutual fund. What he found there made him more nervous because the fund included a lot of paper from Freddie...
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Fannie, Freddie pose no threat to money-market funds (San Diego Union-Tribune)
Edward in Brockton, Mass., got scared enough by the news headlines that he did the unthinkable. He read the paperwork for his money-market mutual fund.
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