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Supreme Court To Hear Case About Excessive Pay; Parallels Seen In Executive Compensation

Washington Post | Robert Barnes and Steven Mufson | Posted 10.31.2009 | Business

Read More: John C. Bogle, Regulation, Reform, Obama, Investors, Mutual Funds, White House, Bailout, Sotomayor, Jones vs. Harris, Jones vs. Harris Associates, Wall Street, Excessive Pay, Vanguard Group, Kenneth Feinberg, Financial Reform, Compensation, Pay Czar, Nfl, Index Funds, Barack Obama, Corporations, Sonia Sotomayor, Supreme Court, Jones v. Harris Associates, Bonuses, Ken Feinberg, Apeals Court, Executive Pay, Business News

The Supreme Court this week will hear a case that raises bedrock questions about the ability of the market to set "reasonable" corporate compensation,...

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The Risk of Not Understanding Risk Adjusted Returns

Dan Solin | Posted 10.13.2009 | Business

Read More: Morningstar, Index Funds, Mutual Funds, Vanguard Index Funds, Vanguard, Business News
Dan Solin

If a fund takes more risk, it is more volatile and the potential for loss is increased, but the fund should yield greater returns. How can you tell how much risk your actively managed fund is taking?

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Social Investing (Finally) Grows Up

Marc Gunther | Posted 09.24.2009 | Business

Read More: Calvert Investments, Bennett Freeman, Investments, Mutual Funds, Social Investing, Business News
Marc Gunther

The idea here is that Calvert will buy stock in imperfect companies (a category that includes every company I know) and then push them to do better.

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Supreme Court To Hear Case On Executive Pay

New York Times | ADAM LIPTAK | Posted 09.17.2009 | Business

Read More: Supreme Court, CEO Pay, Jones v. Harris Associates, Executive Pay, Wall Street, Finance, Mutual Funds, Judge Posner, Bonuses, Harris Associates, U.S. Supreme Court, Business News

Last summer, Richard A. Posner, a federal appeals court judge, issued a surprising and prescient dissent. Executive pay is out of control, he said, an...

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Toward Nonprofit Financial Services

Shawn Bayern | Posted 06.12.2009 | Business

Read More: Mutual Funds, Financial Services, Retirement, Banking, Nonprofits, Financial Crisis, Saving Money, Personal Finance, Business News
Shawn Bayern

Bankers are not popular right now. I have friends who have taken to calling them "banksters," a term that apparently dates back to the Great Depression and now gets 300,000 Google hits.

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Don't Trust Vanguard: Vote For Genocide-free Investing

Susan Morgan | Posted 05.18.2009 | Business

Read More: Socially Responsible Investments, Darfur, Petrochina, Mutual Funds, Vanguard, Vanguard Index Funds, Genocide, Business News
Susan Morgan

For the vast number of people who feel it is unethical to help fund genocide, the decision to vote in favor of the Vanguard shareholder proposal is an easy one.

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How to Green Your Finances

Avital Binshtock | Posted 05.17.2009 | Green

Read More: Philanthropy, Investing, Housing Market, Green Investing, Mutual Funds, Charity, Money, Green, Real Estate, Green Living, Paper, Finances, Personal Finance, Green News
Avital Binshtock

As tax week comes to a close, we've all got our money on our minds, so it's the perfect time to consider how the cash we've put so much energy into earning will work to preserve our planet.

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Mutual Fund Fees Meet Bizzaro World

Dan Solin | Posted 04.03.2009 | Business

Read More: Negative Alpha, Investing, Alpha, Mutual Funds, Fidelity Magellan Fund, Bizzaro World, Business News
Dan Solin

How is an investor supposed to pick the winners from the losers, when the vast majority of actively managed funds (over 95%) will under perform their benchmark over a ten year period?

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Real Change: Outlaw 401(k) Plans

Dan Solin | Posted 02.06.2009 | Business

Read More: 401(K), Investing, Mutual Funds, Ssrp, 401k, Retirement, Barack Obama, Business News
Dan Solin

The 401(k) system is a disgrace. Let's just admit defeat. We are no match for this powerful industry. We need to stop tinkering with these plans, toss them out, and start all over.

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The Big Lie Exposed: Wall Street as Institutionalized Fraud

Jeff Schweitzer | Posted 01.30.2009 | Business

Read More: Corruption, Merrrill Lynch, Tyco, Mutual Funds, Wall Street, Madoff, Economy, Enron, Scandals, Drexel, Business News
Jeff Schweitzer

While investors express dismay and shock about Bernard Madoff's $50 billion Ponzi scheme, nothing about the affair is even slightly surprising. The s...

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Buffett's Wrong: Stay Out of Stocks

Diane Francis | Posted 11.27.2008 | Business

Read More: Stock Markets, Congress, Unwinding, Leveraged, Economy, Financial Panic, Mccain, Obama, Election Results, Business, Investors, Margins, Investing, Nov. 4 Election, Mutual Funds, Hedge Funds, Stock Values, Panic, Warren Buffett, Stock Prices, Wall Street Crisis, Business News
Diane Francis

Far be it from me to contradict one of the world's greatest stock sages and business analysts. But I will.

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Fed To Provide Up To $540 Billion To Aid Money Funds

Bloomberg | Craig Torres and Christopher Condon | Posted 11.22.2008 | Business

Read More: Debt, Mutual Funds, Finance, Federal Reserve, Banks, Financial Crisis, Money Funds, Business News

Oct. 21 (Bloomberg) -- The Federal Reserve will provide up to $540 billion in loans to help relieve pressure on money-market mutual funds beset by re...

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The Mailer That Put the Final Nail in the McCain Campaign Coffin

Rob Kall | Posted 11.12.2008 | Politics

Read More: Obama, John McCain, Mutual Funds, Wall Street Crisis, 401k, Barack Obama, Life Savings, Politics News
Rob Kall

It's hard to imagine that after eight years of Bush, most Americans not concluding that the GOP and its governing approach have caused their pain, their loss, and their fear for the future.

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Don't touch the stock market

Diane Francis | Posted 11.01.2008 | Business

Read More: Warren Bufffett, Wall Street Crisis, Bailout, Wall Street, Hedge Funds, FInancial Markets, Meltdown, Financial Meltdown, Rescue, Hedge Fund Collapse, Financial Crisis, Billionaires, Personal Finance, Economy, Mutual Funds, Dumping Stocks, Stock Investments, Federal Reserve, Housing Crisis, Business News
Diane Francis

Here's my latest warning: Do not be lulled into buying equities because there was a bounce in markets, where some losses were recouped. Or buying bec...

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Smart Advice for the HuffPost Investor: Two Studies Wall Street Wants to Bury

Dan Solin | Posted 08.06.2008 | Business

Read More: Recession, 401(K) Plans, Investing, Mutual Funds, Protecting Yourself From Your Broker, Smart Advice for the HuffPost Investor, Business News
Dan Solin

Another study demonstrates the consequences of following the advice of brokers and advisors who push actively managed funds on their trusting clients.

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Mutual Funds See Worst Start Of Year In More Than A Decade

Financial Times | Deborah Brewster | Posted 05.05.2008 | Business

Read More: Mutual Fund Woes, Mutual Funds, Mutual Fund, Investors Mutual Funds, Business News

All but one of the 25 largest US mutual fund managers saw their long-term assets fall in the first quarter, as returns dived and investors pulled out ...

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