Market-Neutral Funds
Fool’s School
During a bear market in which many stocks suffered huge declines, you’d think that an investment designed to eliminate market risk would have done extremely well. Unfortunately, despite what should have been the perfect environment for them, many market-neutral mutual funds failed to deliver on their promises, leaving investors with unexpected losses. Full Story
Name That Company
I was born in 1992 and bought by U.S. Robotics in 1995. A year later I introduced some groundbreaking computers that fit in pockets, or in the “me” of my hand. In 1997 I became a subsidiary of 3Com Corp., but in 1999 3Com decided to spin me off. My groundbreaking product shared its name with the guy in the cockpit. Today my darlings are Pixi, Treo, Centro and Full Story
Boos for Boeing
The Motley Fool Take
Boeing’s (NYSE: BA) delayed 747-8 freighter program is overbudget and overdue. Late changes in plane design bear the blame for most of the $1 billion in charges Boeing will take on the project. “Challenging market conditions,” leading Boeing to build fewer planes, bear the rest. Full Story
A Sensible Non-Investment
My Dumbest Investment
My dumbest investment is one I didn’t make. I could have bought shares of a bankrupt company that I know well for 2 cents per share. It went up 1,100 percent in three months this year. I know people who bought $10,000 worth, and I heard one person even bought $100,000 worth. It was just too risky for me. Full Story
Last week’s trivia answer
Not long after the Wright brothers took flight in 1903, my founder turned a shipyard into an airplane factory. Today I’m the world’s top aerospace company, making commercial jetliners, military aircraft, rotorcraft, electronic and defense systems, missiles, satellites, launch vehicles, and fancy information and communication systems. Full Story
Roth Gains and Losses
Ask the Fool
Q If you sell a stock that you
hold in a Roth IRA for a loss,
can you deduct the loss when you
take money out of the Roth? You
can deduct investing losses in
regular accounts, but what about
Roths?
— F.T.M., online
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