Blog Launch: (Aug 07) This blog will chronicle my stock ideas in my mock mutual fund run via Marketocracy.com; which I'll run in a manner similar to how I'd run a real "long biased" mutual fund. A common question asked is why do you own ...

My goal is to run a "real" mutual fund, hence the blog name. However it takes about approx $7 million in assets to break even so I hope to get there by the end of year 1 of fund "life"; as we track onto a pace to get halfway there we'll ...

Mission: Raise $7M from readers to launch a real mutual fund. By providing a transparent platform for a virtual growth mutual fund, I'll create a mechanism by which readers can view my thought process & results in creating a 3 year ...

Retail Investors Bug Out for Gold, While Funds Pull Back. Posted by David Gaffen. Simon Constable reports:. Demand for gold coins and bars from retail investors more than doubled during the third quarter, as financial-market turmoil ...

You may think, based on campaign fund-raisers, that Obama’s best friends in Hollywood are Barbra Streisand, George Clooney and David Geffen. But Jeffrey Ressner of Politico says otherwise: None of those stars, he writes, ...

Company Research · Mutual Funds · ETF Research · Asia International Investment Funds · Europe International Investment Funds. expand Screeners. up down. ETF Screener · Mutual Fund · International Mutual Funds Screener ...

My point is that many people who did the “prudent” thing - like investing in low-cost, diversified mutual funds, stock funds, and blue-chip stocks - have been decimated over the past ten years. What is Bogle’s answer to that? ...

Moreover, a good portion of the original run-up in technology came from the belief that international exposure would be a safe haven in 2008 as U.S. consumer-related stocks and financials struggled. But, as decouple-based trading has ...

The company closed an underperforming hedge fund, and it still has $820 billion in off-balance-sheet arrangements, according to its recent town-hall presentation, and $667 billion of that is in mortgage-backed securities — which it says ...

Strategists believe it has to do with a bit of consolidation of positions in the suddenly popular dollar and yen, a pair of currencies that have benefited from repatriation of funds invested elsewhere, even though the US and Japanese ...

Polls show Likud headed to victory in Israel, Elections were set into motion in September when Prime Minister Ehud Olmert resigned amid corruption charges, International News.

Indian-American Sonal Shah to craft Obama?s high tech policy, She heads Google?s philanthropic arm, Google.org?s global development efforts, worked on international development issues and was the vice president at Goldman, Sachs and Co. ...

I'll invest in 30-50 positions with secular growth trends with economic commentary thrown in. NOTE: I'm running this as a LONG focused mutual fund - not as a daytrader, hedge fund, short focused individual trader, etc. Comments welcome! ...

Fact is, politicians have been pressured for years by influential, deep-pocketed hedge funds and financial institutions that wanted faster, cheaper trading venues and looser rules. The SEC studied the effects of repeal by conducting its ...

Mutual funds are a prime vehicle for many people to save and invest in pursuit of financial goals. However, not just any mutual fund will do as some mutual funds are winners and some are losers. In fact, most mutual funds generate lower ...

Substantial funds allocated to nutrition education for all, particularly the poor? Of course not. The impact on health of consumer food purveyors through ever-present advertising is the same as that of cigarette advertising years ago. ...

I’m all for loans to benefit production/re-tooling, but a gov’t rep needs to ensure thats where funds go and not into funding of auto union lifestyles (working or retired). I wouldn’t trust any gov’t rep that wasn’t approved by ...

As the New York Times describes it, the proposed rule (online here) requires hospitals, clinics and other entities that receive federal funds to certify in writing that they are adhering to laws that allow health-care workers to refuse ...