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Of the many new alternatives to traditional mutual funds, 'folios' have probably received the least publicity. Yet folios give investors the flexibility of managing a portfolio of individual stocks with [...]

There are now a surprising number of bankrupt companies trading on the various stock exchanges. What eventually happens to all these companies? Some of them just disappear, says The Turnaround [...]

According to a recent Charles Schwab survey, 57 percent of women think they need a professional money manager, vs. just 38 percent of men. This could be a very expensive [...]

Many Internet sites now offer rankings of brokers--online, traditional, full-service and discount. As a complement to its annual comparison of online discount brokers, Computerized Investing magazine recently ranked the top [...]

* The stock sell-off has put value investing back in vogue. That's great news for Robert Rodriguez, who buys small oversold and overlooked stocks and holds them until the market [...]

Although the tech wreck left the major stock averages in negative territory last year, this was not the case for stocks ranked 'five stars' by Standard & Poor's analysts. Standard [...]

Although the tech wreck left the major stock averages in negative territory last year, this was not the case for stocks ranked 'five stars' by Standard & Poor's analysts. Standard [...]

Over the long term, most stock funds run by banks have produced mediocre results. For the past three years, for example, bank equity funds returned 18.7 percent annually compared with [...]

The inexorable rise of the stock market in recent years has been accompanied by a similarly impressive bull market in financial scams. This trend has fraud experts concerned. 'We're seeing [...]

What investment rewarded investors with a whopping 18.5 percent return in the first half of this year, far more than any major stock index, and had those returns both protected [...]

* U.S. companies raised $76 billion from initial public offerings in 1999, as much as was raised during the entire 1980s. Contrarians view this IPO explosion as a sign that [...]

* Restaurant chains can often hide a bad idea behind feverish expansion. That's why Janice Meyer, the restaurant analyst for Donaldson, Lufkin and Jenrette, always emphasizes same-store sales. 'When same-store [...]

The two-year Treasury bond was recently yielding 0.15 percent more than the 10-year issue. Such inversions have tended to occur around troughs in bond prices and peaks in yields, says [...]

It's almost impossible for individual investors to get a square deal in the bond market. Institutional investors using expensive, real-time databases can always get what they want. But individual investors [...]

In this country the Internet isn't a new toy anymore. But outside the United States, it's still shiny and new and waiting to be unwrapped. Internet use abroad has been [...]

The introduction of a common currency, the euro, is causing European markets to converge, gradually making country allocation within Europe less critical, says Paul Melton, editor of The Outside Analyst [...]