Being 'Unpopular' Could Have Saved You Money This Quarter -- and Next

Millions of mutual fund investors are staring at their account balances and wondering how they went so wrong.

Other Junk

Redemptions at Janus Soar

Building the Low-Maintenance Portfolio

Questioning the Buy-and-Hold Strategy

(Re)Building a Diversified Portfolio

The Junkie's Perfect Portfolio

Fact is, if you built a seemingly sensible portfolio of funds in the past five or 10 years, it was quite easy to end up with a tech-stuffed gaggle that's falling through the floor. When tech dusted the rest of the market in 1998 and 1999, pro and amateur investors alike chased the sizzling sector. A record gush of money flowed into tech funds and "diversified" growth-fund managers quietly put 40% and 50% of their money in tech stocks, too. Today we detailed the steep losses these funds -- and their shareholders -- are still absorbing. ...