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• Alternative Energy Twisting in the Wind

  By Robert F. Keane  |  August 1, 2009

  Last July in this column ("Energy Is in the Air"), I wrote enthusiastically about T. Boone Pickens's plans to build the world's largest wind farm...

• Changing Shades of Blue

  By James J. Green, AdvisorOne  |  July 1, 2009

  As of December 31, 2008, the top five holdings in Massachusetts Investors Trust, which this year celebrates the 85th anniversary of its founding, were the...

• Character Counts

  By Kenneth Silber, Research  |  May 1, 2009

  Sometimes heroes are not all they are cracked up to be. Consider the case of Richard Whitney, whom Time magazine labeled "Hero Whitney" for his...

• Success, with Strings: Searching for Alpha, March 2009

  By Ben Warwick, Quantitative Equity Strategies  |  March 2, 2009

  What's the best way to play the eventual recovery? If you're Warren Buffett, the answer is (mostly) shunning common stock in favor of higher tiers of the capital structure.

• MARK IT TO MARKET

  By Vanessa Drucker  |  January 1, 2009

  Global equity markets lurch in waves of volatility. Banks are loathe to lend, withholding the lubricant that makes economies function. At the epicenter of the...

• The Dow Jones: A Truly Unique Barometer

  By Staff Writer  |  September 1, 2008

  The Dow Jones Industrial Average was first published by Charles Dow in 1896 and followed the Dow Jones Transportation Average. A walk down memory lane reveals...

• Riding The Rally In Natural Resources

  By Staff Writer  |  July 1, 2008

  Investors have suffered a double dose of bad news this year. As the U.S. economy slows under the weight of the weakened housing market, a...

• The Wheat and the Chaff

  By Stephen Phillip Brown  |  October 1, 2007

  Growth in the exchange traded fund market has been near exponential over the past two years, at least in the numbers of new ETFs hitting...

• T.R. vs. J.P.

  By Kenneth Silber, Research  |  October 1, 2007

  It would be called the Bankers' Panic, the Roosevelt Panic, or simply the Panic of 1907. A hundred years ago this month was the culmination...

• Back to Basics

  By James Picerno  |  February 1, 2007

  Exchange-traded funds don't lack for analysis, although precious little of it focuses on associated fundamentals like earnings growth and changes in book value relative to...