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2 hrs ago | MarketWatch

Chuck Jaffe: Fund sales charges are on the way out

Congress didn't actually vote to end the confusion over mutual fund share classes last week but lawmakers took a step that ultimately could go a long way to simplifying the way investors buy and sell fund shares.

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Related Topix: Personal Finance

6 hrs ago | Kansas.com

Stock volatility is back, a sign of an aging bull?

In this photo made Wednesday, Nov. 4, 2009, specialists Scott Wetzel, Michael Bonnano and Peter Gaicchi, left to right, and Gennaro Saporito, foreground right, work at a post on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange.

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Related Topix: Financial Markets, Personal Finance

11 hrs ago | InvestmentNews

Advisers: SEC, not courts, should set standards for mutual fund fees

Several financial advisers said that they agree with the Supreme Court justices who appeared to suggest during oral arguments last week that the Securities and Exchange Commission, and not the courts, should ultimately decide when mutual fund fees are excessive.

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Related Topix: Securities and Exchange Commission, Corporate / Securities Law, Law, US News, Personal Finance

15 hrs ago | The Modesto Bee

Clearing up misconceptions about Roth IRAs

Question: I'm 23 and have been making a point of saving money in a savings account.

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Related Topix: IRA, Personal Finance, Retirement, Financial Markets, Business News

Sat Nov 07, 2009

The Vancouver Sun

Consider ADRs your gateway to the world

Canadians no longer suffer constraints on where in the world they can invest but there's still home-country bias, in part because the dividend tax credit confers tax advantages on those holding Canadian dividend payers in taxable accounts.

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Related Topix: Financial Markets, Personal Finance

Motley Fool

These Are the Market's Strongest Buys

The hottest investments in 2009 have been, in no particular order: Emerging market stocks, especially Chinese stocks Bonds Risky, debt-laden U.S. stocks Following the bludgeoning we took last winter, it's no surprise that investors have either sought lower volatility in the fixed-income market or have tried to regain some ground in more volatile ...

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Related Topix: Financial Markets, Personal Finance

Globeinvestor.com

A practical approach to market vagaries

Interest rates are at rock bottom and the markets have rallied fast: could be a good time to rebalance your portfolio ROB CARRICK 00:00 EST Saturday, November 07, 2009 rcarrick@globeandmail.com It's therapy time for investors with a phobia of falling stock markets.

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Related Topix: Financial Markets, Personal Finance

Fri Nov 06, 2009

National Post

Terence Corcoran: The coming assault on investor freedom

Won't markets be safer and produce better returns over the long run if key institutions and executives are subject to government discipline? While there's no evidence that governments will bring greater stability to financial markets, here's a sure bet: The anti-market rationale behind increased government meddling in high-level banking and ...

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Related Topix: Pension, Canada,

Alternative Energy Stocks

match their performance at lower cost

The intense and growing investor interest in Clean Energy Investing can be seen in the recent growth of new clean energy mutual fund and Exchange traded fund issues.

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Related Topix: Alternative Energy, Science / Technology, Energy, Renewable Energy (Green Energy), Personal Finance, Financial Markets, IRA

Kentucky.com

Supreme Court wades into mutual fund fee disparity

The U.S. Supreme Court is taking a close look at a question individual investors have long asked about their mutual funds, but the courts have largely ignored: Why am I getting charged twice as much as big institutional clients? Sure enough, the money-management services that different classes of fund clients get aren't the same.

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Related Topix: US News, US Supreme Court, Personal Finance

Globe and Mail

Examining the ways to invest in mortgages

G ail Bebee is the author of No Hype The Straight Goods on Investing Your Money.

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Related Topix: Home, Mortgage, Housing, Personal Finance, Retirement, 9

Thu Nov 05, 2009

TheStreet.com

Citi's Primerica Seeks $100M Through IPO

Citigroup's Primerica financial services and insurance unit is going public. Primerica filed a registration statement with the Securities and Exchange Commission on Thursday for the initial public offering, saying it plans to raise as much as $100 million.

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Related Topix: Personal Finance

GuruFocus.com

FBL Financial Group Inc. Reports Operating Results

FBL Financial Group Inc. filed Quarterly Report for the period ended 2009-09-30. FBL FINANCIAL GROUP INC.

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Related Topix: FBL Financial Group, Insurance, Personal Finance, Marketing, Financial Markets

MarketWatch

Supreme Court questions lawyers in fund fees case

The Supreme Court on Monday heard arguments in a case brought by disgruntled mutual-fund investors who claim their fund fees were too high.

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Related Topix: US News, Personal Finance

Institutional Investor

SEC Eyes Efficiency In Trading Review

Securities and Exchange Commission The Securities and Exchange Commission is assessing the impact of high-frequency trading on market efficiency for long-term investors, including those trading small- and mid-cap stocks Reuters reports.

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Related Topix: Securities and Exchange Commission, Corporate / Securities Law, Law, Personal Finance

Wed Nov 04, 2009

Motley Fool

The Winning Recipe for Your Portfolio

All it takes is one superstar stock to make you rich. To have the best chance of finding that millionaire-maker, you have to assemble a diversified portfolio that includes only the best of the best stocks available.

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Related Topix: Financial Markets, Personal Finance

BNET

Asset Allocation Funds: 6 Picks

It's the financial fantasy for a post-crash world: Wouldn't life be grand if you could own one mutual fund that invested in domestic and foreign stocks, bonds, cash, real estate, commodities and currencies, freely shifting investments among categories to take advantage of opportunities, and avoid meltdowns? Well, yes it would.

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Related Topix: Financial Markets, Stamford Metro, New Haven Metro, Personal Finance

CBS News

Gov't May Force ISPs To Block Bogus Web Sites

For the last decade or so, Internet service providers have been dealing with requests to block access to pornographic or copyright-infringing Web sites, or in China, ones that dare to criticize the government .

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Related Topix: Internet Service Providers, Financial Markets, Personal Finance, Paul Kanjorski, US Politics, US News, US House of Representatives, Democrat, Representative Michael Arcuri

InvestmentNews

Financial advisers: SEC, not courts, should set standards for mutual fund fees

Financial advisers said they agreed with several Supreme Court justices who appeared to suggest during oral arguments yesterday that the Securities and Exchange Commission - and not the courts - should ultimately decide when mutual fund fees are excessive.

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Related Topix: Securities and Exchange Commission, Corporate / Securities Law, Law, US News, Personal Finance

National Post

If Bogle thinks U.S. mutual fund fees are excessive, he should visit Canada

If Vanguard Group founder and indexing pioneer John Bogle thinks mutual fund fees are excessive in the United States, you have to wonder what he'd think about the fees in Canada, which are roughly twice as high.

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Related Topix: North America, Canada, World News, US News, US Supreme Court, Personal Finance

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