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Dry bulk shipping isn't exactly the most exciting industry sector to research. Even among sea-borne freight, oil-tanker companies overshadow dry bulk shipping companies. (The price of oil will do that.) But the dry bulkers who carry cargo like...
Back during the buying panic of the 1990s, it was fashionable to believe: Sell your losers, and run with your winners. Of course, one of the lessons of the subsequent crack up: Don't let your winners run so much that they dominate your portfolio...
Dedicated followers of the Clipper Fund may have been dismayed when longtime managers James Gipson and Michael Sandler left the fund recently. For many investors, the Clipper crew represented the best in value investing. During the past decade...
Wall Street is a place where trends can cycle nearly as fast as they do in the fashion world, but in the post-bubble years, investors are treating dividend stocks like the always-flattering basic black. To meet the demand from dividend-hungry...
When Ross Perot ran for president in 1992, the Texas billionaire revealed his simple investing strategy: He had put nearly everything into municipal bonds. The approach violated textbook advice that urges investors to hold diversified portfolios...
Investors looking to beat the average returns of the market will be heading to hedge funds and funds of hedge funds even more in the future, says new research. According to TowerGroup, a Needham, Mass.-based consulting firm, assets in hedge funds...
David Swensen is one of America's greatest investors. As chief investment officer of Yale University, he has produced what has been described as an unparalleled two-decade investment record, averaging 16.1 percent annual returns for the school...
The Institute for Private Investors' annual Family Performance Tracking surveys have found over the past few years that most high-net-worth investors have been achieving overall reasonable benchmark returns. Yet the World Wealth Report 2005...
People who are too wealthy to qualify for either a deductible individual retirement account (IRA) or a Roth IRA have the option of contributing to a non-deductible IRA. Assuming they meet the basic criteria to contribute to an IRA,1 they can...
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...
