Don't let Tuesday's rally fool you. While the Dow roared back more than 236 points and the S&P 500 gained 4%, Monday's 12-year lows showed that this bear market may still grow bigger and meaner.
Michael J. Mauboussin is chief investment strategist for Legg Mason - the Baltimore investment house run by renowned fund manager Bill Miller - and an adjunct professor at Columbia Business School....
Large returns often come in small, overlooked packages. In our search for companies on the verge of the big time, we screened for U.S. stocks with market caps between $250 million and $2 billion an...
The universe of attractive stocks extends well beyond America's borders. To find the best bargains, we scrutinized all international companies with market values greater than $1 billion that have A...
Is there a rating system to determine the best investments for mutual funds for 401(k)s and other accounts?
ILENE MATTESON LITTLETON, COLO.
After reading all the dire economic news out there, you might be tempted to give up and hibernate for the winter. The signs point to an icy season. Employment numbers aren't pretty, tech stocks--wh...
Mutual funds that invest in small, fast-growing companies are nothing but trouble. Of all fund categories, small growth funds have plagued the greatest number of investors. Millions of people have ...
JOHN MARKESE President, American Association of Individual Investors
The mercury nears 90[degrees]F this July morning at a gated community in Coral Gables, Fla. On the TV screen in Hank Hill's home office, the CNBC anchors sweat over the gyrations of the Dow and the...
Don't let Tuesday's rally fool you. While the Dow roared back more than 236 points and the S&P 500 gained 4%, Monday's 12-year lows showed that this bear market may still grow bigger and meaner.
Michael J. Mauboussin is chief investment strategist for Legg Mason - the Baltimore investment house run by renowned fund manager Bill Miller - and an adjunct professor at Columbia Business School....
Large returns often come in small, overlooked packages. In our search for companies on the verge of the big time, we screened for U.S. stocks with market caps between $250 million and $2 billion an...
The universe of attractive stocks extends well beyond America's borders. To find the best bargains, we scrutinized all international companies with market values greater than $1 billion that have A...
Is there a rating system to determine the best investments for mutual funds for 401(k)s and other accounts?
ILENE MATTESON LITTLETON, COLO.
After reading all the dire economic news out there, you might be tempted to give up and hibernate for the winter. The signs point to an icy season. Employment numbers aren't pretty, tech stocks--wh...
Mutual funds that invest in small, fast-growing companies are nothing but trouble. Of all fund categories, small growth funds have plagued the greatest number of investors. Millions of people have ...
JOHN MARKESE President, American Association of Individual Investors
The mercury nears 90[degrees]F this July morning at a gated community in Coral Gables, Fla. On the TV screen in Hank Hill's home office, the CNBC anchors sweat over the gyrations of the Dow and the...
The way most investors pick stocks today, you'd think that dividends were worthless. The yield on the S&P 500 is currently running a pitiful 1.2%, its lowest level in more than 75 years. Yet recent...
It's a great time to be a stock investor. The market, of course, has been booming. And you now have more financial information at your fingertips than ever before. There's more business coverage in...
OCCUPATION: Retired entrepreneur RESIDENCE: Florida
It's a blustery mid-June evening in Columbus, Ohio, and homemaker Essie Cannon is on the phone with four of her five sons--Peter, 41; Robert, 39; Stephen, 36; and Phillip, 33--calling in from vario...
Whether you've been investing in equity mutual funds or in individual stocks, the past few years have been a treat. With the stock market regaining its momentum and marching to record highs in Febr...
After five years of investing in funds, Mark Ziehr, a 26-year-old who audits pension and trust funds for Chicago's Northern Trust Bank, has decided he's going to be a stock guy. He wasn't dissatisf...
When you start to eyeball your year-end fund statements, chances are you'll be smiling. With the average domestic equity fund gaining 20.4% to December, 1997 was shaping up as another stellar year....
By almost any measure, 1997 has been yet another blockbuster year for stock investors. But now, with many experts, including MONEY's investment strategist Michael Sivy, predicting tougher times ahe...
If fear of flashbacks to Mr. Worpenstein's high school trigonometry class has kept you from mastering your finances, put that math phobia aside. The handful of ratios and calculations outlined belo...
Here's just one big problem with the record-setting stock market: As stock prices keep spiraling to ever-dizzying heights, it gets harder to find equities that aren't wildly overvalued--and even mo...
In theory, mutual funds and the web are an ideal match. After all, serious fund investors crave a steady supply of timely performance data--and what better way to feed it to them than over the Net,...
This rollicking bull market has caused the army of U.S. stockbrokers to swell 16.5% in the past four years. As a result, many brokers have been in the business only two years or less--and you know ...
THIS MONTH: --A trio of stocks whose earnings are set to pop --A nimble giant reinvents itself --How our picks did in the earnings sweepstakes In the telecommunications industry, the race to the a...
Reacting to falling prices and a less certain future, small investors are abandoning utilities. Standard & Poor's utilities average was down 6.3% by late April, even as the S&P 500 was up 7.8%. Mor...
When it comes to value investing, Warren Buffett is the big kahuna. This 66-year-old investor's prowess at finding companies selling below what he calls their intrinsic value (essentially what a sa...
Investors know all too well that today's stock dividends are lousy. The typical Dow Jones industrial stock yields less than 2%--the stingiest payout since Charles H. Dow dreamed up the 30-stock ave...
When Dick Reimann, the 61-year-old president of the Klondike Investment Club of Buffalo, Wyo., got the call in September, he was changing the oil on a customer's car.
If you're a mutual fund novice, you might as well skip this column. The four programs I'll be reviewing here weren't designed for you. But if you're a serious investor who wants to screen mutual fu...
Investors clearly don't need convincing about stock mutual funds. So far this year, more than $65 billion has poured into them, on top of 1995's near-record $128 billion. Where else can you get pro...
IF YOU HAD TO RELY ON ONLY ONE INVESTMENT research publication, the Value Line Investment Survey could well be your top choice. Over the past decade, Value Line has racked up one of the best record...
So who's managing your fund, anyway? If it's not a marquee name like Magellan's techie Jeff Vinik or Hans Utsch and Lawrence Auriana, co-managers of the hard-charging Kaufmann fund, that's a good q...
YOU COULD SPEND THOUSANDS OF DOLLARS ON investment research materials to boost your knowledge. But why do that when there are exceptional sources of investment information for free (or nearly free)...
Is it ever worth paying a sales charge for a bond fund? Some investors would say no. But there's at least one fixed-income portfolio that seems to justify its 4.5% up-front charge: $210 million FPA...
Talk about confusing. Fund tracking firms like Lipper Analytical, Value Line and Morningstar (Money's data source) employ some 40 labels to categorize America's 6,700 stock and bond funds. What's w...
STARTING IN MID-SEPTEMBER, AN ESTImated 4 million employees and retired workers at 1,500 large companies--including Northwest Airlines and Westinghouse--will get an unsettling letter from their emp...
THE DOW HIT 4554, ITS 38TH RECORD high so far in 1995, soon after I rang up Robert Marcin to ask how he's trounced the market not only this year but also over the past five. "The stocks that we buy...
One expert tells you to buy shares with low price-to-earnings ratios. Another swears by companies with high earnings growth. Still others tout high yields, or price momentum, or low price-to-book r...
"The competition is seeing stars." so crowed a recent eye-catching Wall Street Journal ad for the $30 billion AIM fund family. The ad went on to note that AIM's $271 million Limited Maturity Treasu...
Conventional wisdom says you should avoid equity funds whose managers trade stocks the way restless 10-year-olds swap baseball cards. Reason: When funds replace 75% or more of their stocks each yea...
No, it's not just your imagination--mutual fund investing is getting tougher. Take something as basic as knowing what kind of fund you own. Garden variety U.S. stock fund, you say? Better check aga...
Contrary to many investors' belief, there's nothing inherently unprofitable about investing in solid corporate citizens. A new study by J. David Diltz, associate professor of finance at the Univers...
Nothing stokes investor fancy more than the sight of a sleek, turbocharged growth stock. But how do you choose among the thousands of cool little outfits that invent smarter computer software, form...
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GAINS FROM GROUNDED STOCKS
John Train, a New York City investment adviser and author of the investing bestseller The Money Masters, offers several intriguing stock- and fund-selecting insights in his new book, The Craft of I...
[Text not available--Ranking of 500 company stocks, their industry, analysts' opinion, revenues, recent price, P/E ratio, projected annual earnings growth, return on equity, current yield, and valu...
According to Money's forecast, fast-growing small companies figure to be the stock market's headliners in 1995, turning in gains that could reach well into double digits. Even so, every investor in...
The unofficial rule followed by most money market funds is simple: investors should be able to take at least one dollar out for every dollar they put in. Until recently, fund sponsors, including co...
-- Never forget that mutual funds, annuities and individual stocks and bonds aren't protected by FDIC insurance. Unlike CDs, these potentially higher- yielding investments put your principal at ris...
LUCKY YOU. YOU'VE FINALLY SCRAPED TOgether an extra $1,000 and you're ready to put it to work in a long-term investment. Unlucky you. Just as you got ready to join the profit party on Wall Street, ...
ANYTHING GOING ON IN THE FINANCIAL MARKETS LATELY? OH, NOT much. . .unless you consider the Dow's 121-point plunge the week of March 21. . .and the 7.4% slide in the price of 30-year Treasuries sin...
As the Dow Jones industrial average roared to one overvalued record after another in January, investors had much to celebrate. But the Dow's sharp drop in early February reminded them that they had...
There's only one surefire approach to beating the market: Start with an instant profit. Sound impossible? Well, it isn't. There's a safe way, known as a dividend-reinvestment plan (DRIP), that you ...
Whether the tidbit comes at the water-cooler or in a taxi, from your best friend or from a cold-calling broker, you're bound to hear a stock tip every now and then. More likely now than then, with ...
Tired of flipping through predictably upbeat brokerage reports or trudging to your library to consult the Value Line Investment Survey? Here's an alternative: By calling Standard & Poor's Research ...
The choices for income investors couldn't be lousier right now: Short-term yields are barely keeping pace with today's 3.1% inflation -- including those on certificates of deposit, money-market fun...
Who could resist the alluring promises heard from the nation's 600 or so investment newsletters? ''Triple your investment in one year -- with nearly 100% complete safety,'' proclaims Douglas R. Cas...
By this point in our special report, you have had the chance to tot up your assets, and if you did, you probably found that you're worth more than you thought. There's just one problem: In all like...
Q Please help two ''mortgage slaves.'' We are in the ninth year of a 30-year, $128,000 mortgage at a whopping fixed interest rate of 14%. We'd refinance, but we can't. Thanks to a bad real estate m...
After last year's 30% gain in Standard & Poor's 500-stock index, there aren't many bargain stocks out there. One way to find the hidden gems is by using a computer and the right investment software...
Analysts expect these 20 utilities, listed in order of total return for the past five years, to provide both reliable dividend growth and capital gains over the next five years. To find them, MONEY...
To help you find solid stocks that can outpace the market next year, MONEY offers this list of top-performing blue chips and large growth companies. We began with a ranking of 1,000 of the largest ...
It won't surprise you that many of the 400 or so investor newsletters aren't worth the price of a subscription, which can run $500 or more a year. Mark Hulbert, editor of the monthly Hulbert Financ...
The goal of doubling your money in 36 short months may seem a tad audacious -- best suited to Las Vegas types whose idea of diversification is hitting the craps, roulette and blackjack tables befor...
To put together this list of ethical investments, we asked Franklin Research & Development, which publishes Investing for a Better World (monthly, $19.95 a year; 617-423-6655), to identify the 50 m...
For 13 years, the clients of money manager Charles Brandes of San Diego have earned satisfyingly high returns without suffering migraines. His performance record: 17.8% a year compounded annually v...
It's almost official. On Dec. 21, the National Bureau of Economic Research, the arbiter of booms and busts, announced that the economy is clearly in a downturn and that a recession probably began a...
THE STOCK MARKET is no place for the ignorant and the innocent, right? Isn't it a fact that even full-time money managers, ruining their eyesight on mounds of research, mostly trail the averages? T...
With brokerage profits down roughly 67% from the peak year of 1986, Wall Street's stock jockeys are flogging analysts' picks more aggressively than ever. But in this day of the superhard sell, can ...
Shareholders who do not need investment income to live on often spend their dividend checks anyway, frittering away the money without even thinking about it. But there is a convenient way that you ...
If you're using a full-service broker, you could be a sophisticated investor -- or a sap. The first uses his broker as an ally in making informed investing choices. The second, alas, can throw away...
Here's good news for the nation's 14 million Individual Retirement Account investors from an expert who ought to know, Roger Murray, 77, one of the inventors of the IRA concept: some tried, true an...
Master value investor Roger Murray, 77, recommends the following three-stage approach to hunting for bargain stocks to hold long-term. The data you need are published in the Value Line Investment S...
Slipping rates were not the only alarming money-market news. Items: -- Actually, it was persistently outsize yields that recently attracted scanners of the best-performing lists to a little-known e...
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Investors are always searching for the key to picking stocks that will prove winners. Some theorists say the best choices are overlooked issues whose prices are low relative to earnings or assets. ...
Financial gurus are positively prolix when spinning theories on how to pick winning stocks. But turn to the flip side of the equation -- when to sell -- and sage advice is as scarce as an ACLU card...
ASK A CHIEF EXECUTIVE about the stock market and you're likely to walk away with your ears ringing. ''I defy anyone to run a company with the immediacy demanded today,'' Champion International's An...
WHAT A BATTLE! On good days the market belongs again to the bounding bull. Aroused by rising earnings, a narrowing trade deficit, and reassuring news about inflation, it kicks up the dust and score...
RARELY HAS investing seemed so hazardous. A full year has passed since the market slide of last October, yet stocks still seem weak-kneed and tentative. Some investors fear an overheated economy an...
A news item about a company catches your eye. It sounds like a business you might want to invest in, but you know nothing beyond what's in the brief article, which does not say where the company is...
Acquiring the stock of a troubled company just as it is returning to health can be exceptionally profitable -- if your timing is right. One sensible way is to buy when a company's officers and majo...
After debilitating double-digit losses in the final quarter of 1987, mutual funds rebounded in early 1988, bettering by almost 20 times the average stock fund's gain for all of last year. What's mo...
Small investors today may feel as if they are struggling on a darkling plain amid the clashing armies of might: program traders, index arbitrageurs and powerful pension fund managers. ''There is tr...
Itching to grab some off-price stocks but fearful of another market rout? Maybe it's time to try convertible bonds. These hybrid securities allow their owners to wear two hats: that of a conservati...
Many of Wall Street's premier forecasters were as surprised as the smallest investor by the severity of the stock market's October plunge. Still, two dozen of the bravest market gurus agreed to for...
Few decisions investors face are more fraught with anguish than whether to sell a stock. With firm guidelines hard to come by, selling often becomes an intuitive decision driven by fear, greed, and...
AS IT SCALED peak after unprecedented peak through most of 1987, the stock market bull looked more and more like an agile and adventurous mountain goat. But lately the creature seems to have lost i...
The top long-term growth funds are the Dan Marinos of the mutual fund world. They can -- and do -- throw the bomb, but their fans prize them most for their ability to rack up steady gains when stoc...
The way I park my cash, The way I buy tax-free, The hedges for my stash: No, no, they can't take wealth away from me.
There is one foolproof way to hang on to all your paper profits: just sell everything and sit tight. Such a strategy has two obvious drawbacks, though. You will have to pay large capital-gains taxe...
Most avid investors believe that you have to spend money to make money. They frequently subscribe to newsletters costing as much as $150 a year and are willing to pay financial advisers up to $125 ...
During the inflationary late 1970s, investors favored growth stocks -- the shares of companies whose earnings rose quickly and steadily because of revenue gains that frequently came from boosting p...
In a rambunctious stock market, convertible bonds are especially appealing to conservative investors. A typical convertible can be exchanged at the owner's option for shares of the same company's c...
After 4 1/2 highflying years, is this stock market now another Icarus, soaring too close to the sun and about to lose its wings? Not by one interesting measure. Adjusted for inflation, today's mark...
Chances are the bull market has left you with unrealized profits. What can you do to protect those gains from a sudden drop? Here are a few suggestions from top brokers and option specialists: -- E...
THE YEARS that Dorothy Arighi spent as comptroller of California Art Supply Inc., a retail chain in the West, proved valuable training for her current life as a successful investor. ''Lots of the p...
The corporate bond market has a bad case of the fidgets. The cause: a sharp deterioration in the quality of corporate credit because so many companies have taken on extra debt either to thwart take...
Successful investing needn't be as difficult or time consuming as most people think. While no portfolio can manage itself, you can prosper with a variant of a look-Ma-no-hands approach. Five minute...
Investors looking to start off big in 1986 might do well to think small. It's long been known that certain kinds of stocks tend consistently to outperform the broad stock market averages. They are ...
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