John Case


Picking The Right Small Stock

If William G. Shepherd Jr. owned all the stocks he has recommended in his newsletter, Ground Floor, he might be worrying about the Mexican peso, or about ...  Read story

Give To The Children, Save On Tax Bill

Christmastime turns the mind to thoughts of giving. The end of the year turns the mind to thoughts of taxes. An incongruous juxtaposition? Not entirely. G...  Read story

Mutual Funds: The Sleepy Investment Wakes Up

For openers, when you talk about mutual funds, keep in mind that you are talking about basic money -- bank-account-and-bonds-type money, the kind you expe...  Read story

Your Money;

You may have noticed that there are any number of people who are willing, for a modest fee, to help you manage your money and accumulate assets. Bankers a...  Read story

The Case for a 'Small' Portfolio

Comparing a portfolio of blue chip stocks with a portfolio of small-cap companies.  Read story

It's 1983. Look At The Kinds Of Companies That Are After Your Money

If you are in the market for a house, the chances are fair that you can find one through a Merrill Lynch & Co. real estate agent, and that you can arr...  Read story

Mark Hulbert Tracks The Tipsters

Think back for a moment to the first quarter of this year. The stock market was in the midst of its long climb from August 1982. In three months alone, th...  Read story

Borrowing On The House

Funding you business through a home-equity loan.  Read story

Future Stock

Question: Where will the Dow Jones Industrial Average be in the year 2000? Don't lay too much money on your answer. A monkey throwing darts probably...  Read story

A Tax-deferred Savings Account -- Sort Of

Take, say, $20,000 that you want to set aside for something down the road -- retirement, maybe, or the first few years of college tuition. You don't want ...  Read story

Insurance: The Protections And Pitfalls Of Homeowners' Liability

You can never tell how much hard luck you may have. An apartment dweller in Florida, for example, was entertaining a friend from the North, who one ...  Read story

A Keyboard Whose Time Has Come

Patricia Kaplus is an accomplished touch typist. She is, in fact, supervisor of word processing at the Oregon Public Employees Retirement System's office ...  Read story