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Moving ahead with stock funds.(Investing For Tough Times)(Buyers Guide)
Constructing a nicely performing portfolio of mutual funds is an investor's first--but not only--task. Every year, you have to give your investments a tune-up to make sure that they can get you where you want to go.
In the last two years, your portfolio has no doubt suffered plenty of dings, dents, and even breakdowns. Despite a stock market rebound after the low hit 11 days after the World Trade Center attacks, the average U.S. stock fund took a 13.3 percent dive, the greatest decline since 1974. More than 1,200 stock funds sustained losses of 20 percent or more. Those declines followed a year 2000 drubbing that saw the average stock fund fall more than 10 ...
- Small-cap funds post losses for quarter.
- Newspaper article from: The Boston Herald Healy, Beth September 23, 1998 700+ words
...payoff could come. Small-cap funds have fallen 22.2 percent...tracking firm. Micro-cap funds, which buy the very smallest...declines for larger growth-stock funds. The fund companies clearly...investors back to small-cap funds, which have been losing...
- Active beats index among large-cap funds: but assets don't follow returns in...
- Magazine article from: Investment News Miller, Rick November 18, 2002 700+ words
...scorecard indicates that active U.S. stock funds generally had trailed market benchmarks...September. In three categories of large-cap funds, S&P indexes had outperformed...looking at the same categories of large-cap funds during the three years ended in September...
- Stock funds rebound from July losses, post quarterly gains
- Newspaper article from: The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel CHET CURRIER October 3, 1996 700+ words
...a little less than 11%. Mid-cap funds specializing in stocks of midsize...value led the broad categories of stock funds in the third quarter, returning...rally for the stock market and stock funds rewarded investors who rode out...
- Big returns in the smallest packages: micro-cap funds can produce an oversized...
- Magazine article from: Black Enterprise Korn, Donald Jay August 1, 2004 700+ words
...all the diversified U.S. stock funds tracked by Morningstar, the...gains, too. For many micro-cap funds, the past performance has...The bad news? Most micro-cap funds try to avoid growing too large...our clients invest in small cap funds rather than micro caps...
- Compelling attributes lure investors to `mid-cap' funds
- Newspaper article from: The Journal Record Chet Currier August 28, 1996 700+ words
...recently tallied 161 mid-cap stock funds, up from 115 and an increase...the past 10 years. Mid-cap funds posted an average annual...percent, nosing out large-cap funds, up 11.78 percent, and micro-cap funds, up 11.45 percent, with...
- ON STATE STREET: Small cap funds riding strong rally.
- Newspaper article from: The Boston Herald Healy, Beth July 3, 1997 700+ words
...happened? Small-stock funds charged past them...reports that micro-cap funds, which own the...funds. Small-stock funds were just a hair...in six years for stock funds of all kinds...small- or micro-cap funds. Others were technology...
- Large-cap funds expected to be big stars outshined.
- Newspaper article from: Dallas Morning News (Dallas, TX) April 3, 2006 700+ words
...everybody else thought that large-cap funds would start to take over in the...research analyst at Lipper. Small-cap funds achieved in three months what the...performers of all U.S. diversified stock funds, which includes large-caps...
- `MID-CAP' FUNDS HAVE BEEN SEEING LOTS OF ACTION.(Business)(Column)
- Newspaper article from: Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Seattle, WA) May 22, 2000 700+ words
...beating all other broad categories of stock funds in both of those periods. (Freudian...took a dive this spring, most mid-cap funds went with them. The $800 million Northern...recent tally of Morningstar data on mid-cap funds, the choices ranged from Pin Oak Aggressive...
