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T. Rowe Price Launches Strategic Income Fund - MSN MoneyCentral
BALTIMORE , Jan. 6 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- T. Rowe Price TROW has expanded its fixed-income investment offerings by launching the Strategic Income Fund. It seeks high income and some capital appreciation by investing in as many as 12 asset classes ...
Posted: Tue, 06 Jan 2009 19:21:00 GMT

How volatility breeds opportunity - CNN Money
Saut: "This is not your father's recession. But that doesn't mean you can't make really good returns. For the well-prepared investor, volatility breeds opportunity." NEW YORK (Fortune) -- You'll have to forgive Jeffrey Saut if he savors 2008 a little ...
Posted: Tue, 06 Jan 2009 15:54:00 GMT

Investors feel burned by what looked like a money market fund - Baltimore Sun
N eil Pelovitz says he has never been a risk taker when it comes to his money. "I'm a saver. I'm not an investor," says the 48-year-old Baltimore County resident. "I had never made any stock purchase." So when a TD Ameritrade representative called ...
Posted: Sat, 03 Jan 2009 23:57:00 GMT

Investing in Mutual Funds - Walletpop.com
A mutual fund is an investment company that sells shares and invests the proceeds in a portfolio of securities. These securities include stocks, bond, cash, or other asset classes . Two significant benefits of investing in mutual funds are ...
Posted: Sun, 28 Dec 2008 23:57:00 GMT

Follow the Leaders Higher - Street.Com
Bond trusts are an obvious example. The iShares Barclays 20+ Year Bond ( TLT Quote - Cramer on TLT - Stock Picks ) ETF ground sideways under broad resistance near $100 for more than five years before breaking and going vertical in November. The trust ...
Posted: Tue, 06 Jan 2009 16:29:00 GMT

Morningstar Announces 2008 Fund Manager of the Year Awards - Earthtimes
Author : Morningstar, Inc. Domestic- and international-stock award winners limited losses in a terrible year for the markets; fixed-income repeat winner made money for shareholders CHICAGO, Jan. 6 CHICAGO , Jan. 6 /PRNewswire-FirstCall ...
Posted: Tue, 06 Jan 2009 15:11:00 GMT

Government bond funds yield big gains - Marketwatch
CHICAGO (MarketWatch) -- A scan of fourth-quarter and full-year results for bond mutual-funds offers few surprises: Lower-risk Treasury-backed debt whipped most fixed-income categories, while company-issued bonds and more daring overseas debt ...
Posted: Thu, 01 Jan 2009 21:36:00 GMT

Success of managed futures is a mixed bag - Baltimore Sun
Strong returns last year are a mixed blessing for investment funds that specialize in trading futures contracts. While the stock market plunged about 35 percent, managed futures funds posted annual returns of about 16 percent, according to the Credit ...
Posted: Mon, 05 Jan 2009 09:28:00 GMT

Fund Vs. Index: A 10-Year Streak - Wall Street Journal
Heading into 2008, 14 stock and balanced mutual funds had beaten the Standard & Poor's 500-stock index for nine years in a row and had a shot at extending their streaks to a full decade. Now, just one of those funds has stayed ahead of that widely ...
Posted: Sat, 03 Jan 2009 23:57:00 GMT

A guide to investing your money in 2009 - WTOL-TV
The wisdom of investing in a smorgasbord of categories rests on the premise that something always works. U.S. stocks in a funk? Buy bonds and foreign stocks. The dollar is plunging? Offset it with income funds from countries with strengthening ...
Posted: Sat, 03 Jan 2009 15:57:00 GMT