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Mutual funds run by managers tout their stock-picking prowess. But over the past 12 months, only 40% beat the returns of funds pegged to broad market indexes. And the index funds offer lower fees and taxes. Little wonder they're growing far faster. Consider funds like the Vanguard Index Total Stock Market, pegged to the Wilshire 5000 index. It's less volatile than the S&P 500, and its stocks are not so richly priced...
...safest approach to biotech is via mutual funds. Vanguard Health, Fidelity Select Health and Putnam Health Sciences have the best three-year returns, according to Lipper Analytical Services. But if you're playing with the speculative part of your portfolio, which is appropriate here, individual stocks pack the big thrill. Naturally, there's no telling if biotech stocks will break out of their slump anytime soon. But if you want to be there when they do, start nibbling...
Today Israel's secular majority is signaling that it has had enough. Says Ronni Milo, the mayor of Tel Aviv and a leader in the secular vanguard: "We are talking here of the basic rights of people to choose their own way of life...
...blocks away from the road crew, tuckedbetween Cambridge Rindge and Latin School andHarvard Vanguard Health Care, sits SkenderianApothecary, a family-owned business since...
...funds and stocks will soon have access to hundreds of other investment options. Think of the world as a landscape of opportunity--everything from distressed Japanese real estate to Russian oil futures--marketed and packaged by giant banks like BankAmerica or by fund companies like Fidelity Investments and the Vanguard Group. "This is like the automobile's coming," says Sanford. "We'd always had transportation--people walked, eventually they rode donkeys--but the automobile was a break from everything that came before it. Risk management will do that to finance. It's a total break...