How to Rate a Mutual Fund: Personalizing the Star System

Mutual Funds
How to Rate a Mutual Fund: Personalizing the Star System
Mutual Funds: The funds that made it into AAII's Top Funds Guide are of investor interest and are readily available, with low expenses and no or low loads, above-average returns, and they have not "bought" their returns with mountainous risk.

A Matter of Opinion
Bear Market Lessons: The Advantage of Micro-Caps
Another lesson to be learned from recent down markets is that there is a weakness in index funds. Virtually all indexes give the most weight to the largest companies. That makes the index fund only moderately diversified.

Tax Strategies
The Expanding Reach of the Alternative Minimum Tax
Ostensibly created as a means of keeping the rich from living tax-free, the alternative minimum tax is casting an ever-widening net each year as more taxpayers become subject to it.

Bonds
Investing in U.S. Treasuries and the Treasury Direct Program
Treasuries have a number of features that make them extremely attractive to individual investors. And if you buy through Treasury Direct, you eliminate all commission costs as well as any cost for maintaining an account.

Stock Screens
An Aggressive Value Approach for Small-Company Investing
The Oberweis Octagon is a set of rules outlining an approach that seeks to identify rapidly growing companies with prospects for continued future growth, but with stock market valuations that are reasonable given their levels of growth.

Mutual Funds
How to Rate a Mutual Fund: Personalizing the Star System
The funds that made it into AAII's Top Funds Guide are of investor interest and are readily available, with low expenses and no or low loads, above-average returns, and they have not "bought" their returns with mountainous risk.