Investment styles fall into two main categories, diversification and concentration. With diversification, investors try to reduce risk by owning a little bit of everything.

The Lord Abbett Alpha Strategy Fund is a fund of funds, something you don't see too often in the mutual fund world. Instead of a portfolio manager picking stocks, assets in this fund are divided among several different Lord Abbett small capitalization funds.

At the beginning of 2007, Financially Fit brought you a series of articles on small-cap investing. We covered the advantages (on Jan. 16, 2007), the analysis (Jan. 23, 2007) and how to choose the best small-cap funds and exchange-traded funds (ETFs) (Jan. 30, 2007)

Rarely has the stock market encountered a phenomenon like exchange traded funds (ETFs).

Mutual fund companies aren?t usually thought of as start-up operations, but that didn?t stop Paul Sutherland. At the end of 2005, his investment management firm, Financial & Investment Management Group, launched the Utopia Funds.