Christine Benz

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  Investors Pulled Record Amount From Stock Funds in April as Market Surged in Q1

  By John Sullivan, Advisorone  |  April 30, 2012

  Discrepancy between S&P performance and stock fund flows continue.

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  Mutual Fund Winners & Losers for 2011: Surprises From S&P, Morningstar

  By Joyce Hanson, AdvisorOne  |  January 3, 2012

  Take a guess on which mutual fund was the bigger winner in 2011: a pure emerging-markets fund or a fund that has purchased no new stocks in 75 years.

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  The Long and Short of Long-Short Funds

  By John Sullivan, Advisorone  |  November 28, 2011

  At the Morningstar Investor Conference in 2006, one breakout session panelist noted the 40 long-short funds in existence, predicting the number would increase tenfold in the next two years.

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  Where to Safely Invest? ETFs to Help Weather Rough Markets

  By Janet Levaux, AdvisorOne  |  August 5, 2011

  Gold, utilities, dividend-paying sectors, health care and other plays are worth considering, notes a Morningstar analyst.

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  Just admit you don't know

  By John Sullivan, Advisorone  |  April 23, 2009

  Our friend and former columnist Christine Benz has a simple client strategy we seriously hope you're already employing. In the face of uncertainty, just admit...

• Bending the rules

  By Staff Writer  |  May 28, 2008

  Some rules were made to be broken. Christine Benz of Morningstar highlights some misleading conventional wisdom. "It's possible for a fund to have an unblemished record...

• Changes

  By Staff Writer  |  March 1, 2008

  Jeff Montgomery, CEO of National Financial Partners Securities, announced his resignation from the company and from his position as COO of National Financial's business unit,...

• Results Are in for Top Funds, Managers of 2007

  By Janet Levaux, AdvisorOne  |  February 1, 2008

  With 2008 shaping up to be a year with at least as much market uncertainty as 2007, several trends from last year may offer advisors...