FundAlarm.com may not be a household name, but the Web site, founded by Roy Weitz in 1996, has an influence more powerful than the 125,000 user hits the site receives a month, (about a third of them are on the site's discussion boards). It is a...
The market may have been flat for much of 2004, but it didn't affect investors' enthusiasm for mutual funds. Total assets in the nation's mutual funds grew by $177.5 billion, or 2.2 percent, to $8.1 trillion in December, according an Investment...
Investors have been flocking to foreign stocks, and for good reason. But there is also good reason to remain wary of overseas investments. During the first 10 months of 2004, international funds had inflows of $83 billion, a record pace and more...
The SEC's requirement that mutual fund boards be stocked with more independent executives met with jeers when it was passed last year. Now, the raspberry blowers have some research to back up their disdain. Missouri University's School of...
The mutual fund scandals have put advisors in a tough position: Recommending a fund that ends up in the headlines can deal a serious blow to an advisor's reputation and can even mean lost clients. One way to be safe is to stick with companies that...