We eliminated sector funds from consideration because they tend to do well in spurts only.
In February it was large 9.69% gains in metals sector funds, which led the chase.
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His 18 funds include 9 U.S. sector funds and the Icon Core Equity Fund.
Sector funds of all sorts were created, slicing and dicing the market in every way conceivable.
Our third requirement is portfolio diversification, so fine sector funds like Vanguard Health Care are excluded.
In our non-seasonal Market-Timing Strategy we use sector funds as well as index funds, avoiding individual stocks.
Finally, consider whether your bond investment should be in sector funds at all.
Sector funds can be very volatile, though, and I suggest investing only a portion of a growth portfolio in concentrated funds.
That process has compelled our portfolios to hold considerable exposure to energy and natural resource sector funds and modest exposure to precious metals.
The problems of the world are too big and coming at us too fast for philanthropy or public sector funds alone to solve them.
UTI's sullied image, it is private-sector funds that are benefiting most.
Of course, just as investors can use single-country funds to capture certain sectors prevalent in a country, it's possible to use industry-specific sector funds to capture certain countries' economic activity.
This, in turn, would drive private sector funds away from the American market and towards overseas soils, where governments are recognizing the importance of investing in energy innovation, manufacturing, and markets.
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Thanks to the proliferation of no-load mutual funds, exchange-traded funds and mutual fund products like Fidelity sector funds and Vanguard's VIPERs, the choices for investors are wider than the culinary options at a Las Vegas buffet.
The proof is in the pudding on this point: every dollar of public-sector funds received by these projects was being matched by nearly four dollars in private-sector investment toward buying and installing the systems that generate on-site electricity and use waste-heat created during generation.
Investors who followed market leadership sold out of precious metals and energy funds and bought into biotech funds like Fidelity Select Biotech (FBIOX), or more defensive sector funds like SPDR Utilities ( XLU) and SPDR Consumer Staples ( XLP), were paid for staying alert and active.
The budget cuts would force layoffs of scientists and engineers, shrink the capabilities of laboratories and universities to perform the most critical cutting-edge energy research projects, and, by cutting funds for highly leveraged loan guarantee programs, steer private sector funds away from American entrepreneurs and small businesses looking to demonstrate and deploy innovative energy technologies.
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Only 28 sector ETFs and mutual funds meet these requirements, which is only 3% of all sector ETFs and mutual funds.
After all, there are still enough good stocks in the sector for funds to choose from.
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But because America's public-sector pensions funds are so enormous, the potential consequences of their problems are too.
The private-sector pension funds, one of the main symbols of Chile's market system, have been reporting losses as share values have tumbled.
In managing a portfolio that has a bias toward equities the balance is usually a combination of cash equity and index or sector tracker funds.
It doesn't quite say that it should be the patriotic duty of public sector pension funds to back Scottish technology, but the report heads in that direction.
But since then the stockmarket has fallen sharply and California has tipped into budget crisis, exacerbated by the additional contributions that taxpayers are obliged to make to top up the public-sector pension funds.
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To the dismay of active equity managers, the ranks of the random-walk converts are swelling all the time, especially in the United States where passive managers now handle most of the shares in public-sector pension funds.
Importantly, we looked at the aggregate of individual investments themselves rather than funds since sector-specific and diversified venture funds exist.
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If investors choose sector-focused funds they may want to go with firms that specialise in one sector.
The bit of the industry that is suffering most is the funds-of-funds sector.
Utilities, meanwhile, are the most underweight sector among hedge funds and long-only investors.
In America and Britain the battered sector has seen funds closing in droves.
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