One bright spot has been asset-management stocks, and two in particular look especially interesting.
However, because iShares are traded like stocks, there are investment management advantages.
Mobile phones can be used to gather health information in the field faster and more accurately than paper records and help with the management of drug stocks.
In "Liquid Stocks", Summit Global Management's John Dickerson discussed opportunities to invest in water companies that were helping build water systems in China and other developing nations.
This is the fourth round of negotiations for a new agreement for the management of shared fish stocks in the waters between the European Union countries and Norway, but one potentially stumbling block will be mackerel quotas.
" Warrick Negus, chief investment officer of Goldman Sachs Asset Management Asia, finds regional stocks "more attractive than at any time since the 1993 bull run.
Another PE shop, Tiger Global Management, sold its gun stocks.
In both Indonesia and Malaysia, we are picking stocks that we think have good enough management so as not to be affected by any change in the political sphere.
Take a realistic projection for the bonds and a slightly higher one for the stocks, subtract trading costs and portfolio management fees, and you get a blended return of maybe 5%, says Arnott.
Marks Group Wealth Management owns certain of the aforementioned stocks on behalf of their clients.
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They press on to study exactly how the stocks performed after the shareholders reached for their management-disciplining device and sued the company.
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Mr. Do, of Barings Asset Management, said that with Asian stocks already at such low valuations, the prospect of monetary easing and signs of economic recovery in the U.S., the region is positioned for some "spectacular rallies" in 2012.
Instead, Curry likes stocks that have solid fundamentals, good business and good management.
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"We've taken it all the way down to ... about 15 percent stocks, " says Flynn, of Flynn Zito Capital Management.
But many families can wring even more tax savings from a 529 by investing it all along in taxable bonds--whose interest would otherwise be taxed at a federal rate of up to 40% (including the effect of an itemized deduction clawback)--and holding index funds or individual stocks in their taxable accounts, says Yale School of Management professor Matthew Spiegel.
First, selecting stocks based on fundamental valuation is the very essence of active management.
Like Swann he focuses on stocks that aren't well covered and will talk to management and competitors.
Some investors are going to prefer the index strategies and while there are options for large cap stocks, for midcap names or thematic strategies, only active management funds are available to investors.
The efforts of hedge funds like NIR Group and Laurus Capital Management to turbocharge their returns by focusing on penny stocks and PIPEs have been the subject of several articles in Forbes over the last three years.
The ETF tracks a NYSE Arca index that selects stocks based on price and earnings momentum, earnings quality, management and value, says Ed McRedmond, senior vice president of institutional and portfolio strategies at Invesco PowerShares, the fund's sponsor.
"To bring stability to the market and to provide fishermen and processors with the necessary long-term security that high levels of investment in the industry require, multi-annual management plans must be introduced for the main commercial stocks, " Mr Stevenson said.
Danareksa Fund Management has launched a mutual fund that invests in such stocks.
The investment company Alliance Trust is increasing its annual management charge for customers who use it to open a stocks and shares Isa.
So, he looks for stocks of producers with low costs, good balance sheets and solid management, operating in regions with favorable political jurisdictions.
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Brick-and-mortar retailers also need to update their demand chain management practices so they can reduce out-of-stocks and satisfy demand at the point of purchase.
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And it follows a profits warning on Tuesday by IT and management consultancy Cap Gemini, which prompted falls among technology stocks on European stock markets.
However, unlike George Gilder, who makes no bones about his preference for talking technology applications over stocks, Murphy has actually expanded his letter business into a money management operation.
"We see value in technology stocks, " says Emily Sanders, chairman and CEO of Sanders Financial Management in Norcross, Ga.
Tales abound of large money management firms riding the emerging markets, technology and financial service stocks without paring down investor positions.
LaSalle Investment Management portfolio manager Ernst-Jan de Leeuw, who picks stocks for the Chicago firm's institutional clients, enjoyed a 57% return last year on British real estate shares.
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