With inflation rearing its ugly head and commodity prices on a tear, gold-oriented mutual funds are doing well these days. If you’re looking to add some shine to your fund portfolio, American Century Global Gold is the best pure-play on gold..

 In his latest installment of Buy, $ell or Hold Horacio R. Marquez begins by asking, "What investor wouldn’t want to own General Electric Co. (NYSE:GE)?"

One of the companies powering the global expansion, according to Marquez, is Zurich-based ABB Ltd. (NYSE: ABB), a leading global provider of electrical-system services and components. With 120 years in business under its belt, ABB leads the world market in power-transmission,…

Janus Mid Cap Value isn’t your typical Janus fund. Janus flew high based on its growth stock investing strategy during the go-go tech bubble of the late 1990s, but then fell hard in 2001 and 2002, issues which were compounded by its involvement in the…

If you’re up for a defensive allocation, Fidelity Select Consumer Staples may be the fund for you. Formerly named Fidelity Select Food and Agriculture, the fund focuses on companies engaged in the manufacture, sale or…

Recessions tend to negatively affect the dinosaurs the longest. The biggest companies are too big to adapt to big market changes; instead, they hunker down and shed personnel. They give up market share in dribs and drabs because…

The Brandywine Fund’s managers are bold. They choose stocks they like and sell them when the price or fundamentals are no longer attractive. Brandywine’s managers are not afraid to trade against the market, either…

Almost two-thirds of the world is made up of young workers willing to work for low wages and in desperate need of such basic consumer goods as cell phones and refrigerators. They live in countries that lack the money or political will to build infrastructure or trade. Now, these young workers want change…

Micro-cap stocks aren’t even on the radar screen for most individual investors who consider this equity class far too risky. But when they’re available in a diversified portfolio that stresses growth at a reasonable price in the form of the Perritt Emerging Opportunities Fund, it might be…

The management and board of Pax World Balanced Fund recently overhauled its socially responsible investing criteria for the first time in 35 years. The fund also out-performed the S&P 500 index on an average annual return basis from

As one of the few small-cap growth funds with a good track record that is still open to new investors, Champlain Small Company Adv. is in a sweet spot. If you’re interested in buying shares, though, don’t wait too long…