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Muni Bond Madness

Municipal bonds are favorites of widows and others seeking stable, even staid places to tuck their money. This year, however, they have performed more like go-go stocks. The Barclays Capital intermediate-term muni bond index has had a total return of ...

From SCOTT WOOLLEY, Forbes,  5 Nov 2009

The $10 Phone Bill

With his gray hair and grandfatherly demeanor, Roger Linquist hardly seems like the kind of guy to kneecap a $116 billion industry. Yet the 71- year-old chief executive of MetroPCS cheerfully and brazenly promises to do just that. He aims to bring down ...

From SCOTT WOOLLEY, Forbes,  29 Oct 2009
Related Topics: MetroPCS Communications Inc,  AT&T Inc.,  T-Mobile

The Trouble with ETNs

Early last year individual investors were hankering for private equity action but had no easy way in. The buyout firms weren't interested in letting small fry into their deal flow directly, and acquiring shares in the publicly listed management firms ...

From SCOTT WOOLLEY, Forbes,  16 Sep 2009
Related Topics: Barclays,  NYSE,  Morningstar, Inc.,  U.S. Democratic Party,  U.S. Republican Party

Boost Retirement Savings For The Long Haul

Chances are your 401(k) plan is frittering away your money--a lot of your money--for no good reason. Over the course of a 35-year career, the typical 401(k) member will forfeit a whopping 23% of his or her retirement wealth to bad investment choices, ...

From SCOTT WOOLLEY, Forbes,  11 Sep 2009
Related Topics: Vanguard Group

Emotional Investors' Seven Dumbest Mistakes

Emotions can be expensive, especially when you start making investing decisions with your gut instead of your brain. Fortunately, there are ways to avoid--or at least limit--the mistakes that we oh-so-human investors tend to make. Daniel Kahneman won ...

From SCOTT WOOLLEY, Forbes,  6 Aug 2009
Related Topics: Daniel Kahneman

Probing The iPhone's Secrets

LOS ANGELES -- Some of the great iPhone mysteries--including the secret terms of any deal between AT&T and Apple to limit what tricks iPhones can perform--could soon be made public, thanks to a series of pointed letters from the Federal Communications ...

From SCOTT WOOLLEY, Forbes,  23 Jul 2009
Related Topics: AT&T Inc.,  Federal Communications Commission,  Google Inc.,  Apple, Inc.

Buy Un-American

How will traumatized American investors respond to the recent global turmoil? With a wave of investment isolationism, predicts Linda Tesar, chairman of the University of Michigan's economics department. Frank Warnock, a finance professor at the ...

From SCOTT WOOLLEY, Forbes,  17 Jul 2009
Related Topics: Forbes Magazine,  Vanguard Group

Bridgewave's Big Shortwave Bet

Like many of their Silicon Valley brethren in the mid-1990s Amir Makleff and Eli Pasternak fell under the spell of a new wireless technology that seemed both magical and cursed. Back then companies like Terabeam, ( TRBM - news - people ) ...

From SCOTT WOOLLEY, Forbes,  16 Jul 2009
Related Topics: Federal Communications Commission

How Much Real Estate Should You Own?

The reputation of virtually every type of investment has been sullied over the past year, but no other asset class has come off looking quite as rotten as real estate. The housing bubble was just the start. Shares of companies that own malls, office ...

From SCOTT WOOLLEY, Forbes,  16 Jul 2009
Related Topics: CNS, Inc.

Retirement Plans From Hell

Early this year the woman overseeing the 401(k) plan for a rural Oregon company gathered her 25 colleagues together to hold an election. At stake: whether to continue paying AIG an annual 1.25% of assets to manage their 401(k) plan as part of an ...

From SCOTT WOOLLEY, Forbes,  25 Jun 2009
Related Topics: John Hancock

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