The News Review:
- What’s Your Investment Manager Worth?
- China, Hong Kong sign supervision agreement on insurer overseas invest…
- The Most Audacious Guarantee in Investing
- Investing, as Warren Buffett tells it, has two rules:
- Bloomberg.com: Investment Tools
- Dueling Fools: The Case for Investing in Banks Now
What’s Your Investment Manager Worth?
Motley Fool – Mar 27, 2008
Finding the one who suits your investment profile requires worthwhile effort. Consider the importance of a.
China, Hong Kong sign supervision agreement on insurer overseas invest…
Forbes – Mar 27, 2008
About 20 insurers in China have won approval to invest overseas under the QDII program so far. Most of the insurers were allowed to invest up to 5 pct of their assets in Hong Kong stock market. Currently, Chinese insurers’ equity investment activities are confined to nine insurance asset management firms, with other insurance companies investing in equities via these nine. China’s top three insurers, China Life, Ping An and PICC, all have already set up asset management companies in Hong Kong.
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The Most Audacious Guarantee in Investing
Motley Fool – Mar 27, 2008
I’m so confident that I’m right, I’ll change my legal name to Waldo if I’m wrong. Years of research spanning nine decades, involving thousands of companies and millions of data points, back what I’m about to tell you. Seriously, you might as well accept it as being true. Because for one thing, I’ll be damned if I’m actually going to go by the name “Waldo.
Investing, as Warren Buffett tells it, has two rules:
Motley Fool – Mar 27, 2008
Never forget rule No. Indeed, the reason that capital preservation is so important to fortune-building is that every dollar lost to high fees or poor investments will no longer compound in your account. So while it’s a worthy goal to try to identify the best stocks and the best funds, it’s even more important to steer clear of the worst ones. An ignominious list
Fortunately, the names of those bad funds are readily available. Here are the worst-performing mutual funds over the trailing 10-year period:
Fund
Trailing 10-YearAnnualized Return
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Bloomberg.com: Investment Tools
Bloomberg – Mar 27, 2008
–(BUSINESS WIRE)–March 27, 2008Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE: RHT), the world's leading provider of opensource solutions, today announced financial results for its fiscalfourth quarter and fiscal year ended February 29, 2008. "During the fourth quarter, I spent a significant amount of timemeeting with customers, partners, employees and thought leaders fromthe open source community. The momentum of open source solutions isstrong and growing, and we believe there is a significant opportunityto expand our presence with existing customers and the many companiesand industries that have only just begun to adopt open sourcesolutions in a meaningful way," stated Jim Whitehurst, President andChief Executive Officer of Red Hat. "In addition, feedback I receivedsupports why Red Hat has been rated the number one enterprise softwarevendor for value by CIO Insight Magazine for four consecutive years. As a result of these factors, we are optimistic about the growthoutlook for the Linux market and Red Hat as we begin fiscal 2009.
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Dueling Fools: The Case for Investing in Banks Now
Motley Fool – Mar 27, 2008
Well, we’ve got the crisis. And, we have the opportunity in beaten-down bank stocks. The time has come to seize the moment. Banks are essential to