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In the old days, the lofty calling of being a philanthropist was pretty much limited to the very rich or at least those with enough wherewithal to endow a...  Read story

The Best Of Both Worlds

Performance, low cost. These funds offer a compelling blend of good performance (on a risk-adjusted basis) and low cost (in annual overhead and s...  Read story

Best Buys

Fund performance comes and goes. Costs, though, are everlasting. All Best Buys have low expenses. But note their letter grades here and in the ma...  Read story

Back To The Futures

The newest way to hedge investment gains and speculate on stocks? The new single-stock futures.  Read story

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While global risk has become a focal point for investors, corporate malfeasance is still a hairy elephant. But if the recommendations made Thursday by the...  Read story

Do-It-Yourself Aid

Is college around the corner? Families too wealthy for need-based aid are turning to the tax code to help pay the bill. Ashley Young, 18, is begi...  Read story

White House Throws Pensions A Curve

Steel, auto and airline companies were about to feel good about retiree drug benefits. Now this.  Read story

Telecom's Golden In Russia

Jim Oberweis is the chef du jour in the sizzling small-cap kitchen. Here's a taste of what he is serving up to clients and subscribers.  Read story

Pay Now, Learn Later

You can protect yourself against college tuition hikes. But the scheme backfires if your kid goes to the state university By now you probably kno...  Read story

The January Effect

It's not too late--or too early--to do a little tax planning. Yes, even in January, there are a few smart moves left for the previous year's taxe...  Read story

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This Valentine's Day, as people celebrate their romantic bonds, many will also reflect on another significant relationship in their lives: the one between...  Read story

Bet on the Small Fry

With marketing razzmatazz and customer service, small-scale lenders have a big future. The great sweep of bank consolidation over the past two de...  Read story

The Best Small Business Blogs

Check out these business blogs for advice from entrepreneurs who have been there and done that.  Read story

Finding Value In A Steamy Market

Amid a blistering four-month rally, most value stocks have become overvalued. It's time to dig deeper.  Read story

The Art of Unhatched-Chicken Accounting

The top four banks have taken significant charges for impairment of their mortgage-servicing rights. The bottom three have not. Countrywide ...  Read story

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In 2000, Procter & Gamble developed a new technology called Smoothies-Protein Particle Stabilization that created a mixture of milk and j...  Read story

Florida or Bust

Suddenly it matters a lot, for death taxes, where you die. An Illinois manufacturing company founder in his late 80s went to a lawyer last year f...  Read story

Investment Gurus Rally For Uncle Sam

Technology and health care top the summer buy list, while retailing is shown the door.  Read story

Europe: the Fast Track

The big European economies are stagnant, but if you look around you find some extraordinarysuccess stories. From his base in Prague, Ivo St. Kovachev is ...  Read story

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If you've studied Forbes' annual ranking of real estate investment trusts, you already know there are fewer top-rated stocks to choose from this year. So ...  Read story

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What do Coca-Cola , Gillette and The Washington Post Co. have in common? For one thing, they all boast W...  Read story

Wordly Wise

Harbor International has prospered for years through global turmoil. Hakan Castegren has seen it all since he launched Harbor International Fund...  Read story

Silibubble

Chipmakers are looking at one of their best years in 2004. That's why you should avoid them--with certain exceptions Christmas came early for chi...  Read story

A Profit U-Turn For International Companies

These nine foreign stocks appear poised for a turnaround and are cheaply priced.  Read story

The Great Fund Failure

Mutual funds were designed to let the small guy invest in the market cheaply and efficiently. The system doesn't work, though, when fund investors are to...  Read story

Focused Bets

Just because sector funds are something of a crapshoot is no reason to ignore cost comparisons. Shop wisely. Of the eight sector groups tracked b...  Read story

The Hacker's Bane

"Contrary to common belief, we were not behind either the WarGames script or the break-in at the Los Alamos National Lab's computer," says Jeff Burrus wit...  Read story

The Hacker's Bane

"Contrary to common belief, we were not behind either the WarGames script or the break-in at the Los Alamos National Lab's computer," says Jeff Burrus wit...  Read story

Taming the Sector Beast

Playing a volatile game, Craig Callahan is picking undervalued sectors, and winning. Knowing when to get in--and out--of a sector can pay off big...  Read story

Jim Collins: Stock Slugger Ends Slump

After a year of strikeouts, one money manager's swing-for-the-fences growth style knocks the ball out of the park in 2003.  Read story

The Summer Of Small-Cap Funds

Ron Rowland says we are in a bear market rally. Still, he's buying, especially tech-heavy small-cap funds.  Read story

The Dead Have Customers, Too

A look at the business organization behind the rock band The Grateful Dead, which grossed over $50 million in 1993.  Read story

A Rising Sun, Finally

Japan's long-awaited revival is getting under way. This not another false start. Bad deflation is ebbing, business is reviving and the stocks are very ch...  Read story

Rational Exuberance

Mairs & Power Growth gets good brands--and for cheap. The numbers put up by the Mairs & Power Growth fund are the stuff of dreams. Over the past ...  Read story

Rational Exuberance

Mairs & Power Growth gets good brands--and for cheap. The numbers put up by the Mairs & Power Growth fund are the stuff of dreams. Over the past ...  Read story

Salvage Operation

David J. Williams of U.S. Trust's Excelsior Funds seeks value among troubled companies on the mend or about to get bought David J. Williams is a ...  Read story

Good Neighbors

The secret to General Growth's top performance in the REIT business: John Bucksbaum knows how to make competing tenants accept one another. Any c...  Read story

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With the U.S. stock market in the red day after day, is it time to look elsewhere for profit opportunities? One chartist thinks so. Dr. Marvin Appe...  Read story

American Hopes to Conquer World -- from Long Island

A profile of a new Sunday paper aimed at Americans who are overseas.  Read story

Foreign Stocks With An American Flavor

These companies are headquartered overseas, but do a big chunk of their business in the U.S.  Read story