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Fund in Focus: Putnam Small-Cap Growth Fund
By Staff WriterRick Weed, manager since July 2004 S&P Rank: 4 Stars A Lie Detector Test for Small-Caps
January 03, 2006
Two Trends That Will Continue in 2006, and One that Won'tFor those that survived the year that was, some congratulations are in order. After living through the bird flu scare, horrific natural disasters, and an inverted yield curve, one must wonder what the next twelve months hold.
January 01, 2006
Mostly Sunny or Partly CloudyLike most questions, the answer depends on whom you ask. We are fortunate here at Investment Advisor in that we have not one expert to...
January 01, 2006
Getting Ready for a Leap in LongevityLongevity increased by 40 years in the last century and may do so again in the first quarter of this century. The reasons are laid...
January 01, 2006
Boxes Are Not ClassesIn the September 2005 Investment Advisor, we showed that investing constrained by characteristics (value-growth and market capitalization) costs investors almost 300 basis points per year...
January 01, 2006
Trading by the CalendarThe January Effect is the Elvis of the investment management world. Some think it's still alive (and working in a convenience store in Des Moines);...
December 21, 2005
S&P/Citigroup Indexes DebutStandard & Poor's on [December 19] debuted six indexes that replaced the S&P/Barra indexes. The new S&P/Citigroup indexes are market cap-weighted, and divide the cap of...
December 19, 2005
Shifts Seen in Asia's Fixed-Income BusinessGREENWICH, Conn. (HedgeWorld.com)--The volume of Asian fixed-income trading fell from 2004 to 2005, and the nature of the market shifted away from government bonds toward higher-risk, higher-yield instruments. So says Greenwich Associates' 2005 Asian Fixed-Income Research Study, released Tuesday. Specifically, a slowdown in institutional trading of government bonds and G-7...