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S&P Gives Best Rating to Two New Money Market Funds
By Staff WriterStandard & Poor's has bestowed on two new money market funds its highest money market rating, AAAm. The AARP Money Market Fund, and the Goldman Sachs Yen Liquid Reserves Fund are the latest in a series of money market funds to receive this rating.
May 09, 2007
Mutual Of Omaha To Start Community Bank NetworkOmaha Financial Holdings Inc. has agreed to acquire Peak National Bank.Omaha Financial, a unit of Mutual of Omaha Insurance Company, Omaha, Neb., wants to open ...
May 07, 2007
Funds Celebrate Eveillard's ReturnRevered portfolio manager Jean-Marie Eveillard has returned to portfolio management at Arnhold and S. Bleichroeder Advisers and the First Eagle Funds after more than two years of semi-retirement. He will be lead portfolio manager for First Eagle Global, Overseas, U.S. Value, and Overseas Variable funds. While semi-retired he was an...
May 02, 2007
Indexes Outperformed Active Funds in First QuarterStandard & Poor's reported that the returns of the major indexes led active funds in both the small- and mid-cap categories in the first quarter of 2007, while large-cap actively managed funds did beat the S&P 500 in the period. The S&P Indices Versus Active Funds Scorecard (SPIVA) results, showed...
May 01, 2007
Tech True Believers Hard to FindTech stocks have been in a three-year funk, having come out of the late 1990s dot-com bubble with little more than a thready heart beat. With a slew of important product updates this year, including the Microsoft Vista operating system, I figured that this was the time to commit to...
May 01, 2007
Positive Returns Continue, Despite Weak Fund FlowsEven with the market declines of February 27 and the resulting swings, more than 90 percent of all equity funds posted positive returns, according to...
May 01, 2007
Safe, but SoundIntermediate-term bonds are not very exciting, but they do deliver steady gains. They represent a conservative fixed income investment strategy--typically carrying an average maturity of...