Mutual Funds

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HBS Working Knowledge December 8, 2003	Readers Respond: Is This the Twilight Era for the Managed Mutual Fund? I am skeptical of the ability of fund managers to consistently beat the market... I believe that we have probably seen the beginning of the decline of the actively managed mutual fund... The mutual fund scandal will shift public trust towards index funds... etc.
BusinessWeek December 15, 2003 Paula Dwyer	Breach Of Trust The mutual-fund scandal was a disaster waiting to happen. An inside look at how the industry manipulated Washington
Registered Rep. December 3, 2003 John Churchill	Wealthy Investors Fleeing Mutual Funds A new report conducted before the current wave of scandals shows that wealthy clients have been steadily reducing their holdings in mutual funds for the past two years.
Registered Rep. December 2, 2003 Will Leitch	Spitzer, OCC Issue Corporate Death Penalty The news came right before the Thanksgiving holiday, so you might have missed it. But let there be no doubt: The mutual fund investigations have now gone nuclear.
CFO December 1, 2003 Linda Corman	Subject to Failure Recent scandals in the mutual-fund industry leave employers questioning the security of their plans.
HBS Working Knowledge December 1, 2003	Is This the Twilight Era for the Managed Mutual Fund? What is the answer to allegedly poor mutual fund governance practices? Can mutual fund directors, often responsible for dozens of funds in a fund family, be expected to exercise adequate oversight? Or must practices be corrected through added regulation? Or is the problem deeper than this?
Financial Advisor December 2003 Alan Lavine	A Look At Fair-Value Pricing Will fair-value pricing boost a foreign stock fund's performance by keeping market-timing arbitrageurs out of the fund? Recent research says yes, but it may be too early to evaluate the impact of fair-value pricing on a fund's total return.
BusinessWeek December 1, 2003 Borrus & Dwyer	The Critical Battle For Fund Reform Big investors, Congress, the SEC -- they're all swooping in to curb widespread abuses in the mutual-fund industry.
Financial Advisor November 2003 Marla Brill	Advisors Divided Over Fund Scandals Some think they are isolated cases; others say their faith is being tested.
Financial Advisor November 2003 Marla Brill	A Constant Alternative Only recently available to individual investors, stable value funds boom.
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