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Thursday, December 21, 2006

Inside Morningstar's 'Best Buy' Funds

Christine Benz, Morningstar.com, penned this primer about the firm's "Analyst Picks" selection criteria, as well as guidance on how to use them when assembling your portfolio. She covers "How We Select Them," "Picks vs. Stars," and "How to Use Them" in this recent article here, via Yahoo Finance.
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Monday, December 11, 2006

20 Largest Stock Fund Firms

Russel Kinnel, looks at how the 20 largest stock fund shops are performing, in an article from Morningstar. Spotlighting the Top Performers, the Most Improved, and the Bottom Three, Kinnel finds "Some [results] weren't very surprising, but others were." See the details here.
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Friday, December 01, 2006

Mutual Funds with 10 Years of Positive Returns

Richard Widows, TheStreet.com Ratings Financial Analyst, spotlights 11 mutual funds going on 10 straight years of positive returns (if they can hold their year-to-date gains to year end): Delaware Dividend Income, Evergreen Asset Allocation, First Eagle Overseas Fund, Gabelli ABC Fund, ING T.Rowe Price Capital Appreciation, Manning & Napier Conservative Term Series, Permanent Portfolio Fund, Royce Total Return, T. Rowe Price Capital Appreciation Fund, Vanguard Life Strategy Income Fund and WM Flexible Portfolio. See details in full article here.
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