The separately managed account industry continues to grow, but the investment vehicle has yet to truly take off. SMAs grew 17 percent, from $528.7 billion in the second quarter of 2004 to $620 billion in the second quarter of 2005, according to a...
During the first four months of this year, convertible investors witnessed a peculiar event. While the Standard & Poor's 500 dropped 4.0 percent, convertible funds declined 6.6 percent, according to Morningstar. The losses were highly unusual...
The proverbial lump of coal is what naughty boys and girls get in their Christmas stockings. But investors who have placed coal stocks in their portfolios over the last year or two have found a gift that keeps on giving. Coal stocks soared by 125...
When the mutual fund scandals broke in September 2003, New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer and other politicians described the misdeeds in black-and-white terms. According to the original story line, the villains were mainly mutual funds who...
Ever since socially responsible investing began as a protest against the Vietnam War and as a lever to force U.S. multinationals to stop doing business in South Africa the concept has been viewed with suspicion in most parts of the investment...
In the 1980s, Charles Schwab changed the way investors shop for funds, introducing the supermarket. The innovation's main attraction was its ease of use. Investors could scan through dozens of fund choices and select the ones they liked best...
It's among the thorniest of issues in the investment world: At what point does an underperforming style of investment turn appealing? The style of the moment on this account most certainly is large-cap growth. It has been, bar none, the worst...
Many art collectors try to avoid paying sales tax, capital gains and, ultimately, estate taxes. They craftily build collections below the radar by paying cash, using money orders, and shipping art to states that don't collect sales tax. Many also...