03/01/01 Democracy didn't pan out for Allied Owners Action Fund. The fund, which opened a year ago and solicited stock recommendations from investors, is shutting down and returning its shareholders' money. In most cases, people will be receiving less money than they put in. (source: Wall Street Journal) More

02/19/01 Is Regulation FD what's really to blame for this brutal earnings season? (source: The Street) More

02/05/01 Online investing community StockJungle.com has announced the first of an expected 10 community members selected to manage an innovative new hedge fund product. The "Hot Hands" Hedge Fund will identify new money managers from amongst the over 20,000 members of the StockJungle.com community and seed them with $1 million in assets each. Together, the 10 managers will form one "fund of funds" hedge fund product that brings together the best individual investor intelligence on the Internet. (source: Yahoo) More

01/15/01 Money Magazine presents its picks for the top mutual funds of 2001. They also take a look back at their picks for 2000, and any fund manager who thrived in that environment deserves a second look. (source: Money) More

01/08/01 'Tis the season for "best of" lists and Money Magazine presents its best investments for 2001. More

01/08/01 Moreover, Money stacks its portfolio against some of the other major magazines' picks here: More

01/02/01 Qualcomm: $1,000 a share. Who could forget that call? Read of that and the other worst analyst predictions in MarketWatch's Year 2000 Hall of Shame Awards. (source: MarketWatch) More

01/02/01 Ah, analysts. We love 'em, we hate 'em. We hang on to their every word, or we laugh at their absurd predictions. Well, it's the end of the year, and it's time to look at what kind of noise they made in 2000. (source: Upside) More

12/19/00 This mutual fund columnist takes a look at how his picks fared in the last year - a useful exercise for those trying to determine from whom they should take advice. (source: MoneyCentral) More

12/04/00 Who needs another ranking of Wall Street analysts? TheStreet.com thinks that individual investors do. Their goal is to provide ordinary investors with a ranking of analysts based on who will actually help them make the most money. That's why their rankings take into account both the opinions of key institutional investors as well as objective data on stock-picking performance. Theirs is the first ranking methodology to include both in one overall rank. (source: theStreet) More

11/20/00 Unlike mutual funds, funds of funds don't have to disclose their holdings or their strategies. The amount of information provided to investors by fund-of-funds managers varies. So do managers' reasons for providing detailed documents -- or failing to. (source: Worth) More

11/16/00 The SEC's Regulation Fair Disclosure took effect on October 23, requiring companies to make public material information to individual investors much in the same way they do to money managers and Wall Street analysts. So far, everyone is a little surprised at the ease with which companies have adapted to the new rule, but now the only question is how long will the openness last. (source: Business2.0) More

11/06/00 Worth.com has compiled a list of the top 250 best financial advisors in the industry. The site allows the user to search for financial planners by state and by year of ranking (although the site only covers 1998 and 1999). Given the recent increase in the number of financial advisors and financial planning institutions, the site aims to help make the decision-making process less painful for individual investors. (source: Worth.com) More

11/03/00 James Cramer breaks down the Fidelity Select Portfolios semi-annual report to look at the performance of each fund in several sectors. Even if you don't own any of these funds, everyone can use this as a guideline for breaking down mutual fund literature. (source: TheStreet.com) More

10/30/00 Regulation FD is intended to insure that all investors have equal access to company information (thus removing the privileged access some analysts have traditionally had to insider information). But it's not easy to figure out exactly how Reg. FD will affect investing entities - so here's a cheat-sheet on the subject. (source: MarketWatch) More

10/09/00 This is a tale of Wall Street that would be funny if it weren't so sad and typical. It's the story of Salomon Smith Barney analyst Tim Albright and his touting of e-commerce company priceline.com to the bitter end. It could just as well be about dozens of other analysts and well-known firms of the day. More

10/09/00 Those of you who read Tomments #2 back in April saved a lot of money by not listening to this analyst. More

09/26/00 As the end of the summer quarter approaches, professional money managers will begin to dump their under-performing stocks to mask any mistakes they may have made (known as window-dressing). This will drive oversold stocks even lower, potentially opening up some very good buys. (source: Money.com) More

09/26/00 In this multi-page article, the author takes a look at why so many analysts jumped on the downgrade bandwagon following Intel's earnings warning (with more than a hint of skepticism). (source: Upside.com) More

09/04/00 Like it or not, message boards are the newest tool in stock price manipulations. But, it is not the average internet user you need to be worried about, it is Wall Street professionals. A look at the problem and a suggested solution from the head of the Open Fund. (source: theStreet.com) More

08/28/00 Marketocracy wants to increase accountability in the mutual fund industry by recruiting individual stock pickers to run its mutual funds. www.marketocracy.com

08/21/00 MutualMinds.com is giving you a chance to become a mutual fund manager. MutualMinds scores how well each stock-picker does. Then, if the SEC approves its application to register mutual fund shares, it will sponsor a fund whose investments are chosen by the community's highest-scoring stock pickers. http://www.mutualminds.com

07/31/00 The internet has democratized investment research--some would say too much so. Can investors find useful stock tips on web sites devoted to rumormongering? (source: Forbes) More

07/17/00 In the wake of its split-off last month from Legg Mason, the Precursor Group telecommunications-research boutique is marketing itself by trumpeting its analytical independence. A lack of investment banking ties and strict employee stock-ownership policies enable the group to provide the unbiased research that's difficult to find elsewhere, it says. (source: TheStreet.com) More

07/18/00 Do conflicts of interest mar analysts' stock picks? (source: Knowledge@Wharton) More

07/03/00 Market Guide, in conjunction with Multex Investor and Sage Online, presented its first annual Halftime Report Series examining the status of analyst predictions and the market at mid-year. More

07/03/00 The NYSE's decision to punish former banking analyst Tom Hanley for aggressively spreading a merger rumor has left other outspoken stock analysts wondering just how far they can go when communicating market chatter to the public and their clients. (source: TheStreet) More

06/30/00 Red Herring's R. Scott Raynovich looks back on and grades his performance from the first half of the year. (source: Red Herring) More