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The Risk of Not Understanding Risk Adjusted Returns

Dan Solin | Posted 10.13.2009 | Business


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?

Trying to Fix the Broken 401(k) System

Garrett Johnson | Posted 08.07.2009 | Business


Garrett Johnson

Representative George Miller is waging a lonely war against powerful enemies. He's trying to reform the 401(k) system, a system that most on Wall Street don't want reformed.

GM Losers: 30 Shareholders That Could Get Hurt By Bankruptcy

usnews.com | Rick Newman | Posted 06.19.2009 | Business


If General Motors declares bankruptcy, some of its investors--including bondholders, other secured lenders, and the U.S. government--are likely to get...

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

Susan Morgan | Posted 05.18.2009 | Business


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.

"America's Secret War" - Current's "Vanguard" Special Report

Current TV’s “Vanguard” | Posted 11.22.2008 | Politics


Current TV’s “Vanguard”

There's been a lot of talk about whether the U.S. and Iran are going to war. The real question is whether the U.S. and Iran are already at war... ...

Green Banking, Good Banking

John Tepper Marlin | Posted 06.12.2008 | Green


John Tepper Marlin

If Ceres Climate Change ratings had been used as a proxy for long-term thinking, they would have been helpful. They would, in the context of the illiquidity of the credit markets, have been a good predictor of the Bankers Panic of 2008.