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Evergreen Mutual Funds Offer Solid Background

There are a number of companies that handle investment for clients both large and small. Evergreen Mutual Funds is one such company. Falling into the mid- to large-size range as far as investment companies are concerned, this company provides its customers with a solid background and a proven track record.

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Ishares and ETFs: Indexed Investment Illusions

How many of you remember the immortal words of P. T. Barnum? Of Yogi Berra? On Wall Street, the incubation period for new product scams may be measured in years instead of minutes, but the end result is always a lopsided, greed-driven, gold rush toward financial disaster. The dot.com melt down spawned the index mutual funds, and their dismal failure gave life to “enhanced” index funds, a wide variety of speculative hedge funds, and finally, a rapidly growing number of Index ETFs. Deja Vu all over again, with the popular ishare variety of ETF leading the lemmings to the cliffs. How far will we allow Wall Street to move us away from the basic building blocks of investing? What ever happened to stocks and bonds? The Investment Gods are not happy.

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