CNN Opinion contributor LZ Granderson responds to comments on his article "Whoopi Goldberg, Donald Trump and race."
Wall Street can't get of enough junk bonds, with investors snapping up record amounts in recent months. But the market may have reached its tipping point.
For the past two years, target-date funds have been under fire.
You've tried to give your kids every leg up, paying for their ballet lessons, braces, bursar bills, and more. But as they approach adulthood, they may "need" something more precious than your money: your signature.
Big businesses have a lot of cash, and many are starting to put it to use -- to invest in themselves.
Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner has been waiting to sign your money for seven months, and he'll have to wait just a bit longer.
Romances come and go, but many a gourmand is in it for life with that addictive cocoa concoction, chocolate.
Train wrecks are intrinsically spectacular, and Will Smith's new movie offers a doozy. Two of them, in fact.
Will Smith may have beaten up aliens in "Independence Day," taken a punch in "Ali" and even suffered at the hands of love in "Hitch," but he draws the line at flying.
Under the glow of a southwest Florida sun, sleek sailboats dance on turquoise seas. With every gentle lapping of the warm blue water on Captiva, a whispered tinkling sound settles around your bare feet. It's the murmur of the Gulf of Mexico tumbling pink, orange, red, gray and blue shells on the ivory sand.
Prices paid at the wholesale level fell sharply in August, driven by drops in energy and food prices, according to the government's last inflation reading before a much anticipated meeting of the Federal Reserve.
Money Magazine: Afford the Care You Needupdated: Sun Oct 01 2006 00:01:00
Perhaps the only thing scarier than the possibility of needing long-term health care is the prospect of not being able to pay for it. With the average annual cost of nursing-home care in the U.S. p...
With tax day just a few weeks away, there is no better time to cross your t's and dot your i's.
If you got a pink slip and you're over 40, you may have more leverage than you think to negotiate severance. Here are some pointers on how to haggle for a sweeter deal.
When Bank of America bought FleetBoston last year, there was one big loser in the deal: Delaware North Cos., owner of the FleetCenter. BofA ditched the naming rights immediately, and almost a year ...
The monthly job report gave investors and policy-makers reason to celebrate rather than worry for a change Friday as the pace of hiring finally showed signs of picking up.
The earnings parade continued after the closing bell Thursday as Electronic Data Systems, John Hancock and Maxim Integrated Products all reported quarterly results.
>> After three years of dismal returns, stock funds are soaring again, with small-cap and technology portfolios leading the way. In fact, the average stock fund earned 30.1% in 2003 (through Dec. 1...
Q. I hear that investing in the generic-drug sector makes a lot of sense right now, but I can't find lists of generic-drug manufacturers to research. Can you point me in the right direction so I c...
Do you remember Shearson 1990s fund, Montgomery U.S. Focus or E-Trade Global Titans Index? Well, you should: at one time or another, each of these mutual funds was a magazine cover boy. It's less l...
Signs of New Life at AmEx Funds
Good old dividends. After being mothballed in the attics of investors' minds for many years, dividends are back in style. What seemed stodgy and old-fashioned in the dazzling days of the tech bubbl...
AT&T just can't catch a break. In late October, Moody's and Standard & Poor's cut their credit ratings on the once rock-solid telco to just a few notches above junk. That may be just the beginning ...
Kenneth Chenault, American Express. The bad news first. When Chenault took over this past January, the economy began slowing down for real. The corporate T&E budgets that are AmEx's lifeblood dried...
Money Magazine: Prudential Goes Publicupdated: Sat Sep 01 2001 00:01:00
When Prudential Financial goes public sometime next quarter, the insurance and financial services giant will become one of the most widely held stocks ever, since each of Prudential's 11 million po...
In the past five years, the number of people buying long-term-care policies has doubled to nearly 6 million a year. Little wonder, then, that Web tools are being developed to help consumers shop fo...
Fortune: The Junkman Comethupdated: Mon Mar 05 2001 00:01:00
If you've noticed the solid gains in the high-yield market this year, you're probably wondering whether it's time to jump into the junkyard. The prospects are definitely alluring: The average high-...
The low point for David D'Alessandro came in January of last year. Bone-tired after completing the European leg of John Hancock Financial's three-week IPO roadshow, D'Alessandro boarded a plane for...
Like its rival Corvis, Sycamore Networks (SCMR) has been savaged lately as investors have bailed out of the overheated optical sector. Sycamore's stock has plunged 83% since last March, partly on f...
Looking at the recent fate of semiconductor equipment stocks, you'd think that Congress had outlawed them. Applied Materials, the giant of the group, tumbled from $115 in April to $42 in October--a...
STOCKS America Online, Ann Taylor, Apple Computer, FreedomCard (private), Microsoft, Nokia, Procter & Gamble
There's nothing like a fat purchasing agreement to bring on a nasty case of writer's cramp. But someday soon your John Hancock may well consist of bits and bytes on electronic documents. Just as a ...
How hot are communications networking stocks? So hot that even the corner butcher seems comfortable dropping terms like DSL, LAN, and broadband. So hot that Wall Street can't produce new issues fas...
A Russian crime boss. An FBI investigation. Money laundering through a U.S. bank. It has all the elements of a Hollywood blockbuster. Unfortunately, this sensational tale is all too true for the Ba...
In many respects we are a nation of planners. We delight in planning our vacation, our wedding, our dream house. And why not? All these things involve spending money, America's favorite pastime. Bu...
For investors eager to get in on the Internet stock boom but unsure of just which highflying names to buy, Internet-oriented mutual funds might seem like the way to go. After all, the conventional ...
John Goldsmith, CEO of Freedom Securities, didn't come up with the name for his company, but it certainly fits. Freedom owns a bunch of smallish brokerage and investment-banking companies, includin...
Fortune: Bookmarksupdated: Mon Mar 29 1999 00:01:00
G.M. O'Connell is CEO of Modem Media Poppe Tyson, an Internet consulting firm in Westport, Conn., whose clients include Citibank and John Hancock. A pioneer of interactive advertising, O'Connell lo...
If you are a true do-it-yourselfer, choose software or a Website that incorporates goal planning, budgeting, investment advice and portfolio management. (Some programs also offer Web links for onli...
Fortune: Street Lifeupdated: Mon Dec 21 1998 00:01:00
JUNK BONDS: THEY'RE GIVING THEM AWAY!!
It's not easy being a large-cap mutual fund manager these days. The market's meltdown has wiped out this year's gains and is eating away at last year's, and redemptions are on the rise. While indiv...
To understand why investors are wary of airline stocks, consider this: Since deregulation in 1978, the industry has never made money for more than three years in a row. So with the airlines poised ...
Money Magazine: Fund Filesupdated: Tue Sep 01 1998 00:01:00
IF THE MARKET IS SO HOT, WHY ARE THEY SO COLD?
If stock funds are the main course of most investors' portfolios, bond funds are the appetizers--and the zesty soup du jour is the high-yield bond fund. In contrast to fixed-income funds in general...
If you own a variable annuity or you're shopping for one now, watch your wallet. The Securities and Exchange Commission has launched an aggressive inspection of the sales practices of 13 insurance ...
If you are like most investors, you don't spend much time reading mutual fund prospectuses. According to a survey of 1,004 fund shareholders by the Investment Company Institute, a fund trade group,...
No doubt about it: There's something tricky about picking the right individual financial services stocks. Banks vs. brokerages? Insurers vs. investment banks? And how do you weigh all the merger-ge...
If you thought money funds were immune to the high fees that plague stock and bond funds, think again. A new survey by IBC's Money Fund Report newsletter shows that a staggering 213, or 43%, of tax...
It's been obvious for a year or two that the sleepy old electric utility business was heading for an upheaval. With California, Rhode Island, New Hampshire, and Pennsylvania already enacting restru...
Got an expensive retirement fantasy? How about a real-world college bill coming your way? Whatever your goals, you'll probably need some help getting there, and the funds listed here are some of th...
"A JAZZY PRO TRUMPETS STOCKS Poised to Gain More Than 50%." That brassy headline ran above my February 1995 profile of Michael DiCarlo, the 39-year-old manager of $1.2 billion John Hancock Special ...
Sunday evening, August 27, the night before Chase Manhattan and Chemical Banking announced their $10 billion merger, Chase CEO Thomas Labrecque phoned Chase's former chairman David Rockefeller, who...
This Small-Stock Picker Aims for 58% Profits in 1994." That audacious headline ran over our profile last February of Michael DiCarlo, the 39-year-old manager of $500 million John Hancock Special Eq...
Although Procter & Gamble (P&G) lacks a traditional pension plan, the company edged out last year's winner, IBM, for the top spot in MONEY'S fourth annual ranking of the major corporations that pro...
THE NOTION THAT EVERY INVESTOR needs bonds or bond funds is as much a Wall Street tradition as pin-striped suits. Bonds belong in every portfolio, goes the standard thinking, because they tend to p...
America's companies are making money again and splashing shareholders with some of their new wealth. After years of restructuring, profits are pouring in and dividends are rising. Seven out of ten ...
IF YOU'VE tuned out the unending complexities of health care reform -- if you can't even recall what's bothering Harry and Louise, and by the way, are they still married? -- it's okay. Though Clint...
If you had bought the five stocks that Michael DiCarlo recommended in this column a year ago, you could have earned a fat 34% return, vs. only 7% for the S&P 500 index (see left). And that wasn't j...
LET'S SEE NOW. TCI + Bell Atlantic + QVC Network + Paramount + Viacom + AT&T + Time Warner + US West. Hmmmmmm . . . confused? Marketers can hardly keep up with the headlines, much less comprehend h...
The Wall Street investment banking houses are humming into the wee hours, ever grander deals are grabbing ever grander headlines, and, says tobacconist Nat Sherman Inc., sales of premium cigars lik...
When you buy a mutual fund, you want one that can really fly. One with the strength to glide far above a market gusty with unexpected downdrafts. One that you can ride with for a long time. You als...
Last March, retired steel executive Robert Greenebaum convened an urgent meeting in the offices of Selected Financial Services, a no-load fund management subsidiary of Kemper Financial Services. Th...
Stocks of the fastest-growing companies are tempting, and some will surely surge. But many sport high double-digit price/earnings ratios and will be quickly punished at the slightest sales or earni...
Interested in putting a few thousand dollars into hot growth companies in Eastern Europe? Or in one of those richly rewarding private placements of stock that Saudi Arabian princes seem so fond of?...
Small-cap funds are hot. And some experts say that even after two years of strong performance, this rowdy bunch still has room to move up. But with more than 100 funds to choose from, where do you ...
Junk bond fund investors gave thanks in November when bargain hunters helped push up the funds' returns by an average of 1.3%. But they sure won't forget October, when junk funds (known in polite c...
''What you need is a nice conservative investment, a mutual fund that buys stocks, maybe a Treasury bond or two. You'll get a little income, some capital gains, all low risk. Hey, it beats that CD ...
Money Magazine: SMART MOVES updated: Fri May 01 1992 00:01:00
-- Grab the goodies that dozens of public companies offer shareholders. Buying even one share of Walt Disney ($37.50), for example, gets you up to 40% off lodging at selected Disney resorts. Snag R...
It's all systems status quo in MONEY's quarterly Life Insurance Safety Watch. The 20 biggest, safest insurers listed in January's Newsline again passed the tough test developed by Indiana Universit...
The recent collapse of two multibillion-dollar life insurers, Mutual Benefit Life and Executive Life, probably has you wondering whether your carrier, or one you're considering, is safe. Thus begin...
In its way, the September announcement by Lotus Development was historic: The company told its homosexual employees that it would provide the same benefits coverage for their long-term partners as ...
For an idea of your employer-paid health insurance coverage in retirement, consider what it is now. Chances are your company has been tinkering with your medical benefits lately, adding an option h...
Ever more fearful that a virus could invade their computer systems, U.S. companies are turning increasingly to security specialists and asking for help. Cris Castro, director of information securit...
What's in a name? According to handwriting expert Ruth Brayer, that depends on how you sign it. Brayer's consulting firm, Graphological Services International, boasts 150 clients, including departm...
Stroll through charming Cape Cod villages. Picnic on St. Croix. Or discover the mysteries of Hong Kong. Sound enticing? You bet it does -- especially to the financial planner or broker who sells yo...
Tax reform took the zing out of the high write-off deals that once quickened the heart rates of investors looking for ways to cut or defer taxes. But there are still some attractive tax-favored inv...
When Jay Fisher earned a bachelor's degree in filmmaking at the University of California in 1984, he knew he was embarking on a financially precarious career. Indeed, after 2 1/2 years Fisher, 23, ...
Stuart Glass, 43, and his wife Carol Ann, 38, have some of the lowest-cost auto and homeowners insurance in the state of Texas. In addition, they get medical insurance for themselves and their 18-m...
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