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The Motley Fool August 14, 2006 Zoe Van Schyndel	Going Global With ETFs Look to use global ETFs to enhance your portfolio's diversification, but do remember that global-equity markets have experienced considerable volatility in recent months.
The Motley Fool August 10, 2006 Zoe Van Schyndel	Spiders for Arachnophobes Far from being creepy, ETFs can spin some nice profits in your portfolio.
The Motley Fool August 8, 2006 Shannon Zimmerman	Beat the Market in Your Sleep Outperform without all that pesky volatility. The Vanguard 500 Index a world-class and dirt cheap S&P tracker that provides quick and easy exposure to such household names as Microsoft, General Electric, and IBM -- has notched an annualized gain of 12%.
The Motley Fool August 7, 2006 Nathan Slaughter	Fire Your Fund Manager Baseball has taught many practical lessons that can be applied to the financial world. Most recently, the decisions of embattled Cubs manager Dusty Baker serve as a reminder of when it might be time to dump a struggling fund manager.
The Motley Fool August 4, 2006 Michael Leibert	AllianceBernstein Profits While Its Funds Idle Behold the lucrative beauty of asset management. Investors in most AllianceBernstein funds had a less successful second quarter.
BusinessWeek August 14, 2006 Adrienne Carter	Denise Nappier's Green Vision The Connecticut Treasurer warns pension fund managers: Ignoring climate change will destroy corporate profits as well as the environment.
The Motley Fool August 3, 2006 Tim Hanson	Barely Legal Stocks Small- or micro-cap stocks that have little to no analyst coverage can be dangerous. An ETF investing entirely in these small companies is just as risky. Investors, take note.
Registered Rep. August 1, 2006 Stan Luxenberg	From Complexity to Simplicity And Back Using plain-vanilla mutual funds, retail advisors can build low-correlating portfolios, like absolute-return portfolios. In fact, the sophisticated financial advisor is performing like a mini-institutional consultant of yore.
Financial Advisor August 2006 Raymond Fazzi	Fund Returns: Theory Vs. Experience Morningstar is well known for its mutual fund star ratings, but later this year the research company will introduce another standard for assessing funds -- by measuring how much of their gains end up in investors' pockets.
Financial Advisor August 2006 Matthew Hougan	Too Much Of A Good Thing? Do the new leveraged ETFs have a place in the financial advisor's toolbox?
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