Lawrence Carrel

TheStreet.com Senior Writer

Lawrence Carrel joined TheStreet.com in 2007. He spent the previous seven years at SmartMoney.com where he created two weekly columns, “ETF Focus” and “Under the Radar.” Prior to this, he created SmartMoney.com’s stock-of-the-day column, “The One-Day Wonder.” In 1995, he became a founding staff member of The Wall Street Journal.com, where he edited breaking news, the Journal’s international editions, covered the stock market and was one of the writers of the Cyber Investing column. As a reporter for Gannett Suburban Newspapers in Westchester County, N.Y., he won a Best of Gannett as a member of the spot news team covering the World Trade Center bombing in 1993. Before that he served as National Editor at the North Jersey Herald & News. Carrel has written for The Wall Street Journal, The New York Observer, Time Out New York, Razor, SmartMoney, Guitar and Barron's Online. He holds a bachelor's degree in economics and communications from Cornell University and studied at the Columbia School of Journalism.
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Mutual Funds Struggling to Keep Investors

By Lawrence Carrel

The first wave of baby boomers is set to retire, drawing down on their savings in mutual funds.

05:59PM 12/27/07

Article

So Many Niche ETFs, So Few Investors Who Care

By Lawrence Carrel

Increasingly more new products compete for investor attention and scarce seed capital.

10:15AM 12/24/07

Article

Muslim Funds Are Rewarded for Their Faith

By Lawrence Carrel

Avoiding financial stocks proved to be a winning strategy this year.

06:13AM 12/24/07

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Exchange-Traded Notes' Tax Perks Under Attack

By Lawrence Carrel

The IRS says that returns of ETNs that invest in currencies must be treated as ordinary income.

10:52AM 12/18/07

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How to Decide Which ETFs Are Best for You

By Lawrence Carrel

A number of Web sites rank funds. Here's how they stack up.

06:11AM 12/04/07

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Fund Investors Brace for Bigger Tax Bills

By Lawrence Carrel

Despite a lackluster year, mutual funds are distributing more in capital gains this year than last.

06:07AM 12/03/07

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Money Market ETF Not as Safe as it Appears

By Lawrence Carrel

PowerShares' new fund tracks an index of variable-rate demand notes, long-term bonds that act like short-term notes.

05:36PM 11/26/07

Article

The Last Hot Real Estate Deal: Overseas REITs

By Lawrence Carrel

The Alpine International Real Estate fund is blowing the lights out with some well-timed bets.

06:21AM 11/19/07

Article

Best Way to Short Oil

By Lawrence Carrel

Why bother with the futures market when five exchange-traded products track oil prices?

11:09AM 11/13/07

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Suit Says Muni-Bond Taxes Are Unfair

By Lawrence Carrel

States tax interest on other states' bonds, but not their own. Can they do that?

11:12AM 11/12/07

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Dow Jones S&P 500 NASDAQ 10-Year Note
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