Articles

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  Where To Put Your Money Now See Kurt Brouwer interviewed by MarketWatch's Jonathan Burton (video)
  MarketWatch.com
  July 14, 2010


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  Investor fears ignite sell-off It's a sign of stock market weakness. It's a sizable double-digit loss. It's a headline-grabbing event that rachets up the fear factor of investors.
  USA Today
  May 21, 2010


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  Investors need nerves of steel for markets The past two weeks have reminded us that the markets are not a good place for the nervous or naive.
  San Francisco Chronicle
  May 9, 2010


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  Question of the day: How safe are California tax-free money funds? ...I was wondering about the relative safety of California tax-free municipal money market funds. Has the risk become much greater than a regular taxable money fund?
  San Francisco Chronicle
  July 8, 2009


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  GM: What's in It for Taxpayers? Aside from maintaining jobs and stability, the General Motors rescue offers a long shot at breaking even, let along an investment profit.
  BusinessWeek
  June 1, 2009


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  Funds that bet against bull get gored The bull market started on March 9 - unless you invested in a handful of funds that bet big against it.
  USA Today
  May 31, 2009


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  Up from the abyss For stock mutual fund investors, the first quarter of this year had been looking a lot like the fourth quarter of last year: an Acapulco cliff dive. But this time around, the equity market landed on a trampoline. Los Angeles Times
  April 12, 2009


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  Clobbered stocks mean it might be time to add a value fund If you own a value fund, odds are good that your fund is just stuffed with bargains. Unfortunately, your manager probably bought these bargains when they were twice as expensive as they are today.
  USA Today
  March 19, 2009


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  Stock market recovery likely will be years in the making Investors who are still card-carrying members of the buy-and-hold club are no doubt wondering how long it will take stocks-once they stop falling-to regain their hefty losses. The answer: probably longer than the 18 months it took for the Standard & Poor's 500 index to plunge 56.3%.
  USA Today
  March 9, 2009


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  How can U.S. break the vicious economic cycle? The Dow Jones industrial average plunged almost 300 points to an 11-year low Monday as the markets sank further into a downward spiral of fear and despair. In a speech to Congress last week, Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke described this as an "adverse feedback loop, in which weakening economic and financial conditions become mutually reinforcing."
  San Francisco Chronicle
  March 3, 2009


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  Shell-Shocked investors flee stocks As stock prices tumble to fresh lows, investment strategy is coming down to this: How much pain can you stand? Some investors reached that threshold Monday, when the Dow Jones industrial average fell almost 300 points in a global sell-off and closed below 7,000 for the first time since May 1997.
  Los Angeles Times
  March 3, 2009


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  To Protect Your Nest Egg Tread Carefully For retirees whose portfolios have been clobbered by the bear market for stocks, it's not going to be easy to make that money back. But there are steps you can take to help get back on track, including some moves that can provide tax relief down the road.
  Wall Street Journal
  July 20, 2008


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  All Weather Portfolio Mixing It Up All-Weather Portfolio
  This combination of mutual funds is designed to deliver good returns through market ups and downs.
  Wall Street Journal
  September 10, 2007





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