Andrew Leckey

When everything else turns sour, times are sweet for the bond market. For the past couple of years, the ingredients providing bonds with their sugar boost included a weakening economy,...

Q. I have a substantial amount of my 401(k) plan in Fidelity Aggressive Growth Fund (FDEGX). Now that the fund has lost a significant amount of value, I'm considering getting...

`I am not a crook," President Richard M. Nixon declared at the height of the Watergate scandal. His words bear striking similarity to recent denials of wrongdoing by executives of...

Q. I retired in March 2000 and rolled my 401(k) plan into an individual retirement account that invested in, among other things, Alliance Technology "B" Shares. The value has gone...

The individual retirement account is alive and well, even though its loyal investors have seen their balances shrink in value during the stock market decline. In fact, the federal government...

Q. I'm 45 years old and own a few mutual funds, including American Century Growth. Does this fund have a good future? --A.R., via the Internet A. The key word...

You have to be small to get respect these days. Stocks of small companies have outperformed stocks of large companies by an average of 20 percent over the past two...

Q. My wife and I have individual retirement assets invested primarily in Janus Core Equity Fund. Due to its poor performance, we're considering transferring our money out of it. What...

I've just completed some fascinating reading about the distortion of reality and its negative impact on the many people it touches. No, I'm not talking about the book "A Beautiful...

Q. I'm considering moving some of my portfolio into Fidelity Puritan Fund. What's your opinion of this fund? W.T., via the Internet A. It's definitely not a Johnny-come-lately investment. This...