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Cheap Funds Dupe Investors: 3Q12

Fund holdings affect fund performance more than fees or past performance. A cheap fund is not necessarily a good fund. A fund that has done well in the past is not likely to do well in the future (e.g. 5-star kiss of death). Yet, traditional fund research focuses only on low fees and past performance.
by David Trainer, Founder & CEO
New Constructs
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How To Survive the Euro Crisis

As I wrote in “Don’t Be Fooled: Get Short Now”, the euro is not that different from Enron, WorldCom or the Madoff fund. All of these organizations were able to pretend they were profitable or solvent long after they were insolvent. Now markets are finally acknowledging the intractability of the Euro debacle.
by David Trainer, Founder & CEO
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Cutting Thru the Smoke in the Energy Sector

Two of the three stocks added to our large/mid cap Most Dangerous stocks list for November are from the energy sector. Those stocks are Energy XXI (Bermuda) Ltd. (EXXI) and Superior Energy Services (SPN) – both get my very dangerous rating as do all of the Most Dangerous stocks. All of the energy sec­tor ETFs get a dan­ger­ous rat­ing, which means you should sell them.
by David Trainer, Founder & CEO