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Thursday, August 07, 2008 |
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Measuring Managers' Mettle: A Revealing Investment Gauge
By Stephen T. McClellan
A critical part of the investment evaluation process is gauging management effectiveness, quality, and character. Surprisingly, this is often disregarded by Wall Street. What to look for to determine whether management can be trusted.
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Optimizing Your Retirement Income: What Works Best and Why
By Christine Fahlund
Only a small minority of Baby Boomers are accumulating enough savings to provide for their income needs. But those approaching retirement can improve their financial security in retirement, depending on their flexibility and their approach to four big decisions that are under their control.
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The First Cut: Real Dogs: Pet-Care Stocks
By John Bajkowski
A starting point for investors. This issue's focus is on finding stocks in the pet-care industry, an area that some investors believe may be "recession-proof."
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How to Nail Down Your Profits: 20 Questions for a Disciplined Approach
By Donald Cassidy
Much attention is given to studying what to buy, but inadequate energy is devoted to the hold/sell decision. This is backward, since dollars already invested are at more risk than cash not yet invested. How you can implement a disciplined approach to your decisions on whether and when to sell.
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The Bottom Line: How to Calculate Your Portfolio's Return
By AAII Staff
The question every investor wants to know is: How well am I doing? Although some people are satisfied simply watching the dollars grow, most investors want that translated into a performance figure. A look at two methods for calculating your portfolio's return.
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Model Fund Portfolio Update and a Look at How Various Indexes Are Weighted
By James B. Cloonan
The Model Mutual Fund Portfolio is down for the year to date at -3.8%, but performing well considering the weak election-year market. Also, a look at the various methods for weighting stocks in indexes - and which one is best.
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Offbeat Offerings: LEAPS
By Cara Scatizzi
An investor reference for products that are not your typical offerings. This issue's focus is on Long-Term Equity Anticipation Securities (LEAPS).
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Sorting Out the Winners in the Low Price-to-Book Stock Universe
By Wayne A. Thorp
A mountain of research points to the long-term success of value-based stock selection, and University of Chicago accounting professor Joseph Piotroski further refines the approach, using basic financial criteria to help separate the winners from the losers. A look at our stock screen based on the Piotroski approach.
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Briefly Noted
Current news items of interest to individual investors.
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Letters to the Editor
Member questions and comments on recent AAII Journal articles.
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Sentiment Survey:
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(as of 8/6/2008)
| Bullish |
35.61% |
| Neutral |
21.97% |
| Bearish |
42.42% |
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