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Since most ETFs only mirror a market index, such as the S&P 500, they won't outperform the index. But increasingly, investors see that outperformance quest as more of a pipe dream. "Only 20% of [mutual-fund] portfolio managers actually beat the index that they're tracking," says John Spallanzani, director of ETF sales and strategy at GFI Group. "So if you put your money in an ETF, you're basically beating 80% of the mutual-fund managers out there." ETFs are also more liquid than mutual funds, because they can be bought, sold or shorted throughout the trading...
...apart mothers and daughters, and set back the cause of equality in the political sphere by decades." Clinton and Palin suffered brutal personal attacks during their campaigns, venom that Kornblut ascribes to sexism. Won over by Barack Obama, young women failed to appreciate the historic nature of Clinton's quest. Sarah Palin's good looks, meanwhile, "contributed to the narrative of her as an idiotic pawn." Still, the author's in-depth interviews with powerful female politicians like Nancy Pelosi, Claire McCaskill and Janet Napolitano show that the distaff political troops are on the move...
While last night’s victory over Colgate held important implications in the Harvard women’s hockey team’s quest to capture the ECAC title, the contest’s historical significance may be even more noteworthy...
Pitch: A seasoned journalist’s quest to uncover the origins of the foods Americans eat everyday...
...many worried less about what to call the next decade and more about whether there would be one. After the world failed to end at the stroke of midnight, linguistic experts promised that a nickname would bubble up over time. Despite creative attempts--including Ryan Guerra's decade-long quest to popularize the Unies via brochures and blog manifestos--none has. We've gotten by for so long calling this decade the 21st century--a term that will sound ridiculous in 50 years--that we might as well get started on christening the next one. Will it be the tweens...